From: Tom Link Date: 2008-12-17T06:27:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.6 - normal behavior ? > #Apparently, the simple fact of checking this keeps Ruby from raising > #a NoMethodError when those entries don't exist Entry is a hash I presume? a = {:a => 1, :b => 2} a[:a] => 1 a[:x] nil