I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.  Why would you
subclass A if you didn't want to inherit any of the methods from A?

   -- Markus

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 18:57, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> I'm wondering how feasible it might be to implement a local_method_missing 
> hook in core Ruby? What I mean by that is a hook like method_missing, but one 
> that only is concerned with the methods defined in the current class context.
> 
> E.g.
> 
>   class A
>     def a; end
>   end
>   class B < A
>     def local_method_missing(sym, *args)
>       puts "Can't find #{sym}."
>     end
>   end
> 
>   B.new.a
>   #=> Can't find a.
> 
> Thanks,
> T.
>