From: Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
Date: 2005-05-11T04:53:13+09:00
Subject: Re: a class that looks like (kind_of?) several classes

> > Thanks.  I assumed that the StringIO class inherited from
> the
> > IO class since it has all of the same methods.  So the
> proper
> > Ruby style is to use respond_to? instead of kind_of? to see
> > what "type" your arguments are?
> 
> The common Ruby style is to not check at all, but just send
> the messages
> needed to get the job done.  If the object is inappropriate,
> Ruby will
> catch it and let you know what it didn't like.

I was referring to the case when a method does different things
based on the argument "types" (i.e. String#[]=).  I'll just
start using "respond_to?" instead.  I was using both.




		
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