From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-06-05T20:53:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't method_missing affect respond_to?

Hi --

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Pat Maddox wrote:

> Take this class:
>
> class Foo
> def method_missing(m, *args)
>   m.to_s
> end
> end
>
> irb(main):006:0> Foo.new.foo
> => "foo"
> irb(main):007:0> Foo.respond_to? :foo
> => false
>
> This obviously just returns the name of any method that doesn't exist
> for the object.  So if you can send the object any message and get a
> result, why doesn't it respond_to those messages?

Maybe because that would render #respond_to? essentially useless :-)


David

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