From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-09-22T00:31:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ducktator - A Duck Type Validator

On 9/21/06, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
> Actually, it is the developer's responsibility to override respond_to? when
> overriding method_missing. To do one and not the other is just sloppy.

Maybe. I did point out that in my early days of programming Ruby, I
would implement one without the other. But simply doing a #respond_to?
check doesn't help you with arity checking, which matters as much as
the presence of the method itself.

-austin
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