From: Love U Ruby Date: 2013-02-23T17:20:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Why class returning its own name when "include" statement? @Stefano Yes you are right. The below code is proved that. ********************************************************* module Show def show_string p "hi" end end # => nil class Foo @x=12 (include Show).object_id end # => 10681980 class Too @x=12 (include Show).object_id.inspect end # => "10648020" ********************************************************* Does that mean @x has been already initialized? or curious to know what "10648020" contains into it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.