Jeff Pritchard wrote:
> One thing I keep running into over and over and over and over that I
> wish there was some syntactic sugar for is the whole business of calling
> a method on an object, and doing something intelligent if the object is
> nil.

This question sure comes back often.

c.f. http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/256556

Daniel