From: mental@...
Date: 2005-11-23T08:05:47+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the ruby way to do this?

Quoting Caleb Tennis <caleb@aei-tech.com>:

> You could get fancier and just call "<<" on everything, catching
> exceptions and handling them for objects that don't implement
> that method.

It's better to use respond_to? -- if you get a NameError, you can't
distinguish between the object itself not responding to :"<<" and
something deep in the bowels of its :"<<" implementation not
responding to :"<<".

-mental