diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9f288e45c1..ed0dc957f5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Oct 21 23:47:12 2010  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* dir.c (dir_initialize): remove useless intermediate variable.
+
 Thu Oct 21 16:07:20 2010  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* io.c (rb_f_select): change rdoc.
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index a5c6acd827..557f36df13 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -395,11 +395,7 @@ dir_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE dir)
     argc = rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "1:", &dirname, &opt);
 
     if (!NIL_P(opt)) {
-        VALUE v, enc=Qnil;
-
-        v = rb_hash_aref(opt, sym_enc);
-        if (!NIL_P(v)) enc = v;
-
+	VALUE enc = rb_hash_aref(opt, sym_enc);
 	if (!NIL_P(enc)) {
 	    fsenc = rb_to_encoding(enc);
 	}