From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-02-07T15:09:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10479] Re: overriding NameError exception

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:10467] overriding NameError exception"
    on 01/02/07, "Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net> writes:

|However, if I wanted to globally override the NameError
|exception handling to do something like:
|
|if the object is a hash element and nil, and method is +=,
|make it a number, set it to 0 and redo the operation, otherwise
|do the normal NameError procedure.
|
|How could it be done?

How about the following?

  class NilClass
    def +(other)
      other
    end
  end

although it does not override the exception handling.


							matz.