From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach) Date: 2007-05-19T06:31:18+09:00 Subject: Re: multimimensional arrays - i am not getting it.. In message , Mike Fletcher writes: >a = Array.new( 3 ) { |idx| Array.new() } >That will call the block once for each element, and that block will >create a new (different) array instance each time it's called. You could just do {[]} for the block. It DWYM. -s