dblack / candle.superlink.net wrote: > I've actually been thinking about whether one could plausibly > implement a sort of "NACK" response (i.e., lack of response) from an > object, which would be neither nil nor false nor an exception, but > which would happen in the course of the method being called: A quick hack would be to have a NackClass, mix in Singleton, and have a global variable $nack pointing to the instance. Then have a method_missing returning $nack for every class you want to exhibit the behaviour. Now if only method_missing called super by default we could just have this as a mixin to object. Though it would still conflict with any other Object#method_missing anyone wanted to write. martin