From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-04-07T06:13:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Method missing and arrays as arguments..

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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Kyle Schmitt wrote:
>
>  How do you go about passing arrays as arguments to something like
>> method_missing?  I've got a method that takes an array as an argument,
>> but calling it via method_missing is proving problematic.  How do you
>> deal with arrays in these situations?
>>
>>  def method_missing(method,*args)
>>   if respond_to?method.to_s[/^add_([^$]+)/,1]
>>       @data<<method(method.to_s[/^add_([^$]+)/,1]).call(*args)
>>   else
>>     super method_missing(method,*args)
>>   end
>>  end
>>
>
>
> I think your problem is in the else clause.  It should be:
>
>   else
>        super
>   end
>
> You don't want to call method_missing explicitly, you'll create an infinite
> recursion.
>
>
Well, that's another problem, which I overlooked in MY response.

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