From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T01:53:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Patch to add a Module#const_missing method

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> |proxy classes for Java classes. I guess there must be some similar uses
> |for it in C-Ruby too, for creating proxy classes?
> 
> Understood.  How about more general aproach like "attr_missing" or
> something to hook both instance variables and constants?  Of course,
> there may be a better name.
> 

I wonder if there's any reasonable case where you'd want a single
method to be able to handle both missing instance variables and
missing constants? The two seem pretty disjoint, so perhaps they
should use different hooks.


Cheers



Dave