From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T19:06:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Duck Typing as Pattern Matching

>>>>> "D" == David A Black <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

D> It's perfectly correct -- a little artificial, perhaps, but not
D> incorrect.  It's actually only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to
D> method_missing; all sorts of such things can happen.

 Why do you think that it's artifical ?

svg% cat b.rb
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
$LOAD_PATH.unshift("../src")
require 'bdbxml'

txn = BDB::Env.new("tmp", BDB::INIT_TRANSACTION).manager.transaction
p txn.respond_to?(:create_modify)
p txn.create_modify
svg% 

svg% b.rb
false
#<BDB::XML::Modify:0x40093080>
svg% 


 :-)



Guy Decoux