From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T03:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: method_missing for Enumerator

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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