On Friday 17 January 2003 07:41 am, dblack / candle.superlink.net wrote: > I should add: it also doesn't duplicate the respond_to? functionality, > because an exception might be raised by something other than there > beign no ameth method (such as division by zero in #ameth). David, the subtilties you pervade. -- tom sawyer, aka transami transami / transami.net .''. .''. . *''* :_\/_: . :_\/_: _\(/_ .:.*_\/_* : /\ : .'.:.'. .''.: /\ : ./)\ ':'* /\ * : '..'. -=:o:=- :_\/_:'.:::. | ' *''* * '.\'/.' _\(/_'.':'.' : /\ : ::::: = *_\/_* -= o =- /)\ ' * '..' ':::' === * /\ * .'/.\'. '._____ * | *..* : |. |' .---"| * | _ .--'| || | _| | * | .-'| __ | | | || | .-----. | |' | || | | | | | || | ___' ' /"\ | '-."". '-' '-.' '` |_. ------------------------------------------------------------