From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-12-15T09:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: All there is to know about Duck Typing (was: inplace assignment)

On Monday 15 December 2003 01:31 am, Derek Lewis wrote:
> This sounds like some "fun" code I was writing the other day, just for the
> heck of it.  I wrote a module I called CloseCall, and it defined
> method_missing.  It searches all the methods on the object with the same
> (or compatible) arity, and uses the String#fuzzy_match method from the
> code snippets on rubyforge to find a method with a similar name.  When it
> finds one similar enough, it uses class_eval to define the method, so
> method_missing doesn't get called the next time.
>
> I can post the code if there's any interest, but it's not terribly pretty,
> as it was more of an experiment than anything. :)

I would certainly enjoy seeing it. How much have you tried it out?

T.