From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack@...>
Date: 2009-02-19T02:29:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22219] Re: [Feature #1122] request for: Object#try

> 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.

IMHO there should be two methods, to avoid confusion, and they should
be explicitly named, again to avoid confusion.
foo.if_not_nil.bar
and
foo.if_respond_to.bar

Thoughts?
-=r