From: Ondrej Bilka <neleai@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T19:17:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22180] Re: [Feature #1122] request for: Object#try

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:58:22AM +0100, Daniel Luz wrote:
> 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
IMHO foo.?bar should be same as (foo.bar rescue NoMethodError) to handle method_missing. 
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