From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2003-01-17T15:25:42+09:00 Subject: Re: quick: it responds, it evaluates, and is not empty Hello Tom, Friday, January 17, 2003, 3:08:22 AM, you wrote: TS> quick quest: anyone know of a nice slick short and sweet way to do this: TS> if self.respond_to?(:ameth) TS> if ameth TS> if not ameth.to_s.empty? TS> ... TS> end TS> end TS> end ((not ameth.to_s.empty?) and ...) rescue 0 -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru