Hello Claus, Friday, January 27, 2006, 3:51:26 AM, you wrote: CR> I don't want to lose numeric literals in patterns! But, having recovered CR> from the first shock, and ignoring other people's hats, there may be a CR> few things that need cleaning up in that area (why do some patterns CR> work without Eq, some with? Should there be a Match class or CR> something to pin down what can and what can't be matched how?..). this makes sense for me. Ruby has the special class for matching, so that something like case x of "str" -> 1 1.1 -> 2 /regexp/ -> 3 translated into the if x =~ "str" then 1 else if x =~ 1.1 then 2 else if x =~ /regexp/ then 3 that allows to define matching rules by writing appropriate definitions for "=~" -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com