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Message: [QUOTE="Rick DeNatale, post: 4642294"] Also consider that if "Hello" were equivalent to String.new("Hello") it would in turn be equivalent to String.new(String.new("Hello")) and String.new(String.new(String.new("Hello"))) etc. ad infinitum, ad nauseam. So literals need to be reified at parse time to avoid this infinite regress= ion. --=20 Rick DeNatale Blog: [URL]http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/[/URL] Twitter: [URL]http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale[/URL] WWR: [URL]http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale[/URL] LinkedIn: [URL]http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale[/URL] [/QUOTE]