On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:57:23 +0900, David A. Black <dblack / wobblini.net> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Bill Guindon wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:04:57 +0900, Michael Gebhart <mail / miketech.net> wrote:
> >
> >> When I do:
> >>
> >> @variable.function
> >>
> >> ruby does not know, if the method "function" is avaibable or not.
> >
> > actually, you can ask it...
> >
> > @variable.respond_to?("function")
> 
> But that's a runtime thing too.  I don't think you can leverage that
> to do pre-runtime checking.
> 

Yep, but he started out mentioning a runtime problem.  Just wanted to
make sure he knew he could check for the method during runtime
(triggered by "doing my first steps with ruby").

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)