From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2003-08-22T09:13:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Wrapping ENV I don't like it. I have some environment variables with names like "My-Env-Data". This is not a valid method name. And i don't now what is the real benefit of your code ? ENV['foo'] is in my opinion much more readable. And i never count the time for typing my program. I write it once but read it many times.