From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-05-31T06:08:39+09:00
Subject: Re: #respond_to? not working for dynamically generated metho

On May 30, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Robert Dober wrote:

> This is very interesting, I just imagine that dynamic_finder does not
> give consistent results depending on events outside the Ruby
> program(*). Are you still happy with the semantics, instead of
> respond_to? giving false negatives it gives false positives now.

Well, if it can't be made accurate, that's a different thing.  First,  
we would probably need to document that it can't be trusted in such a  
case.

> You have created a dependency between method_missing and respond_to? I
> really feel bad about this.

I guess that means that I made it so that respond_to?() needs to be  
updated if method_missing() is?  Yes, I guess that's right.

David says that's bad.  OK.  I thought respond_to?() lying to me was  
bad.  So I guess we just chose to care about different things.

I guess each person needs to decide what is more important to them.

James Edward Gray II