On 21/09/06, MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage / gmail.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > But simply doing a #respond_to?
> > check doesn't help you with arity checking, which matters as much as
> > the presence of the method itself.
>
> Very true. In the same way (as others have mentioned), method_missing
> dispatching can cause some serious flaws in signature validation. And
> method_missing with variable arity is even worse, heh!

And should #method, #instance_methods, ... also be overridden ? IMHO
it's better to avoid using method_missing in most cases, it makes code
more difficult to debug.

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