From: Chad Fowler Date: 2003-09-11T06:11:28+09:00 Subject: Re: What *are* variables? Which are nil now? On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Austin Ziegler wrote: # > raise "@b1 is nil" if @b1.nil # > @b1.each { |bf| # # You mean @b1.nil? -- right? # I think he's looking for something more like this: VariableSpace.each_pointing_to(nil) do |var| # Do something with "var", which is probably some kind of # object-oriented representation of a variable in memory. end No way to do anything even close to this that I know of. Chad