From: Daniel Luz <dev@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T11:58:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22177] Re: [Feature #1122] request for: Object#try

2009/2/15 Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>:
> Count me in as a +1 on foo.?bar(baz). I'm on the fence about whether ?bar
> should call the Ruby method respond_to? or just check the method table
> internally (might be a nice optimization). Either way is fine with me,
> though.

IMHO, foo.?bar should behave as "call-except-if-nil". Not only it
would be more consistent with other languages (like Io and Groovy),
but I think it would also be more useful/less dangerous.

--
Daniel