From: Kornelius Kalnbach <murphy@...>
Date: 2009-02-07T02:40:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21898] Re: [Feature #1122] request for: Object#try

Narihiro Nakamura wrote:
> Object#try is new feature of rails2.3.
I mostly use @person.name rescue nil ^_^ #try is nice.

> Matz said: "OK, good name is the last problem." Anyone has better
> name?
since IO and Groovy use a syntax with ?, what about Object#send? ?

@person.send?(:name)

but I think #try is the better name. send? also looks like it returns a
boolean.

#attempt would be synonymic, but it is an ugly word.

#try might be confused with "try...except" in Java and other
languages...but Ruby already uses Java keywords in a different way (new,
case, extend(s), super), so I wouldn't worry about it.

[murphy]