From: "Bruce F." Date: 2010-11-07T13:11:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Code in a class but not in a method -- please explain! Thanks, Dan. I appreciate the reference you gave me, but I'm still stumped after looking through it. I've looked through it in what seemed the obvious places, but I don't see the the answer to my question. I think the problem may be that I don't know some terminology, so my attempts to search aren't working. Although I'm a newcomer to Ruby, I'm an experienced OO programmer, using C++, Java, and many other languages. (I started programming in 1971.) I've read most of "Well Grounded Rubyist" by David Black, and of course Collingbourne's "The Book of Ruby". I haven't been able to find my answer in them, either. (That doesn't mean that it's not there -- but I haven't found it, and if I've read the answer it didn't register.) Bruce -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.