From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-01-18T10:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: quick: it responds, it evaluates, and is not empty

On Friday 17 January 2003 03:28 pm, Martin DeMello wrote:
> <snip NackClass>
>
> > i actually like that one (someone suggested it earlier).  it's short and
> > ignores exceptions, but it would be patently clear to anyone reading the
> > code that missing methods do not throw exceptions.

i like it too, expcept too...

> That was mine. The problem, though, is that anyone writing their own
> method_missing has to explicitly remember to call super. I know it'd
> break Ruby's model, but there are times I think it'd be really
> convenient if method_missing was treated as a special case, and behaved
> more like, say, a multimethod.

indeed, but would super always be called first or last ?

def method_missing
	#super (auto super here?)
	...some code...
	#super (auto super here?)
end

and what it you really needed super somewhere in between? kind of a can of 
worms. it would just be much better if we had a real nack.

-- 
tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net


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