Thanks for the reply.. I'm trying to sort out how directly your statements describe my code. I think I have a competent idea of OO, but since i've never had anyone poke around my code and point things out, I dunno for sure.

All you are doing is associating functions with a hash, then unnecessarily abstracting a function call over every access to that hash

Well, in this particular case, that's precisely what this object is supposed to do. Really, it's just a config file regurgitator. Is there another way you handle something like this, where the object is there mostly to access specific data, and not make any changes to that data?

I hope your go/othello project is going well..
-Syn0