From: Dan Doel <dolio@...>
Date: 2005-05-07T17:14:07+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 303: nil should accept missing methods and return nil

I certainly don't use Ruby in large business applications (just my personal 
web site and various programming assignments for my courses at university)...

However, I must say that any time I've gotten a NoMethodError on nil, it's 
been an actual bug in my algorithm that I had to fix. Your proposal probably 
would have made things significantly harder for me.

Perhaps my code isn't real-world enough, or I just write code differently than 
you, but I doubt this would save me much time, and would probably cost some 
in actuality. When I know that a method may be legitimately called with nil, 
I can usually anticipate it and code around it, so these exceptions actually 
signal real bugs in most of my code.

-- Dan Doel

On Friday May 6 2005 12:44 am, John Carter wrote:
> Is it? Prove me wrong empirically...