From: ts Date: 2002-04-04T20:42:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Test the result of an initialization ? >>>>> "J" == Jayce Piel writes: J> What I want is if the path is not a path to a file, the object is not J> created. I try to do a "return nil" in initialize, but it has no effect. raise an exception in initialize Guy Decoux