From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-06T00:32:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Kirbybase Hacks NilClass

On Mar 5, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Jamey Cribbs wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>> On Mar 4, 2006, at 10:25 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Jamey Cribbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> #select { |r| (r.speed and r.speed > 300) or (r.range and  
>>>> r.range  < 900) or (r.service_date and r.service_date <  
>>>> Date.today) }
>>>
>>>
>>> select { |r| r.speed > 300 or r.range < 900 or r.service_date <   
>>> Date.today rescue false }
>>
>>
>> I realized, after I sent that, that my solution is *not*  
>> equivalent.   Guess that's a good argument for your way of doing  
>> things Jamey.  ;)
>
> Well, I just wanted to thank you for starting this whole  
> discussion.  I *really* like getting feedback on KirbyBase and your  
> post has resulted in some great ideas from people concerning this  
> nil issue.
>
> Bottom line is that I'm going to work on finding a way to satisfy  
> your request to not override NilClass#method_missing while keeping  
> the simplicity of KirbyBase's query expressions.
>
> Thanks again for bringing this up.

And thank you for listening!  :)

James Edward Gray II