From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2003-10-04T01:29:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Absolute class name? Hi, In message "Re: Absolute class name?" on 03/10/04, "Mark J. Reed" writes: |But now I'm curious - why does irb have a different parser from regular ruby? |That seems likely to cause all sorts of such incompatibilities, since |you have to maintain similar code in two places . . . Ah, historical reason, reserved to be solved in the future (Rite). matz.