From: Robert Klemme Date: 2004-06-05T18:28:38+09:00 Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash? Maybe I got something wrong here, but I thought the idea of duck typing was to just use the instance as a hash and get bitten if it's not. After all, either way an exception will be thrown. If you don't throw an exception you can still catch NoSuchMethodEx and treat it appropriately. Regards robert