On Saturday, January 18, 2003, 1:22:09 AM, Tom wrote:

>> i dont know. on the my side, i like 'when NACK' idea - may be because
>> it is close to pattern matching (in functional programming). in one
>> program i used 3rd variant, smth like:

> i agree, nack would be good. i suppose returning nil if the method doesn't 
> exist is out of the question?


Not at all!

  class Object
    def method_missing(*hey_who_needs_arguments)
      nil
    end
  end

Gavin