OK, I've been playing with Parrot and reading the mailing list for a while. (My first post; whee!) 1) What's with the big mess in Parrot_readbc? Why not just start a pbc file with something like: #comment bytecode[7345]:\n <7345 bytes of bytecode> This way you wouldn't have to worry about where the file was coming from or whether or not you could stat() it (and I like shebang lines). Forgive me if this is a stupid question. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com