[#11439] comments needed for Random class — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>

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15 messages 2007/06/12

[#11450] Re: new method dispatch rule (matz' proposal) — David Flanagan <david@...>

This is a late response to the very long thread that started back in

17 messages 2007/06/13

[#11482] Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Does this look like a bug to anyone else?

10 messages 2007/06/16

[#11505] Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>

1.8.6 thread support was broken in bad ways. It stayed for three months

20 messages 2007/06/20
[#11512] Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...> 2007/06/20

Hi, I'm the 1.8.6 branch manager.

[#11543] Re: Apple reportedly to ship with ruby 1.8.6-p36 unless informed what to patch — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

10 messages 2007/06/27

Re: method_missing for Enumerator

From: "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-06-25 18:30:06 UTC
List: ruby-core #11535
On 6/25/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: method_missing for Enumerator"
>     on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:04:55 +0900, TRANS <transfire@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |What do others think of this for 1.9+?
>
> |Seems safe enough to me. Am I right in thinking this? Yes, there is
> |some potential for uncaught NoMethodErrors, of course, but given the
> |nature of this, that should be pretty rare.
>
> Although I really love the idea like this, this is too dangerous for
> core functionality.  I'd rather see something in hacking library, such
> as Facets or ActiveSupport.
>

I had the same reaction.  There are issues with how you compose uses
of method_missing.

Note that rspec had to do away with using method_missing because it
and activerecord were 'fighting' over it.

http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/articles/2007/01/10/rspec-should-use_a_little_less_magic



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