From: "Carina C. Zona" Date: 2012-03-07T11:18:04+09:00 Subject: Re: http://ruby-doc.org/docs/keywords/1.9/ : (Object) Object is their class, and the root object in Ruby. (Well, technically BasicObject is now the root object. But that's if you want to bypass the rest of the object heirarchy.) As shown in the core docs, similar notation is standard for all methods. http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Object.html http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/BasicObject.html http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/ On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ralph Shnelvar wrote: > What is the purpose of >  (Object) > next to every keyword in http://ruby-doc.org/docs/keywords/1.9/ > ? > > > Trivia question: What is the only keyword with a question mark? > > --   Carina