From: Dot Baiki Date: 2008-09-16T00:49:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Need someone who can help > There should be no drawbacks. In fact, the radius is not known until > the AreaOfCircle method is called so, in this case, initializing it is > not required. The Area variable is not really used as far as we can > see. You did put this into a class so it may be that it is used > elsewhere. As far as memory allocation, it is not necessary. Ruby does > all that automatically and needs no help from us. Great, I'll take this into account. Thanks a lot, and hope I can count on you with my next problem (which will come for sure). Baiki -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.