From: Joel VanderWerf Date: 2003-09-11T13:06:09+09:00 Subject: Re: What *are* variables? Which are nil now? Gavin Sinclair wrote: > # Now, who can tell me what that "_" local variable is? Extra points for > # telling me why I should have known all along. Must be an irb thing. I don't see it when executing your code in ruby directly, only in irb.