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