On 9/27/07, Jonas Pfenniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/9/27, Gregor Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Defining NilClass#method_missing for nothing is not too clever, for a > > large scale libary IMO. > > I'm not sure you understood, it is ruby2ruby who defined > nil.method_missing. We can't start to support each and every hack a > library will add to the Ruby core.
^for this reason, you can't really use ruby2ruby in anything serious. nil.method_missing prevents a lot of exceptions from being thrown, and there's a lot of code out their that legitimately needs those exceptions to be thrown for correct behavior.
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