Camping and ruby2ruby

[John Beppu]

On 9/27/07, Jonas Pfenniger <zimbatm at oree.ch> wrote:
>
> 2007/9/27, Gregor Schmidt <ruby at schmidtwisser.de>:
> > Defining NilClass#method_missing for nothing is not too clever, for a
> > large scale libary IMO.
>
> I'm not sure you understood, it is ruby2ruby who defined
> nil.method_missing. We can't start to support each and every hack a
> library will add to the Ruby core.



^for this reason, you can't really use ruby2ruby in anything serious.
nil.method_missing prevents a lot of exceptions from being thrown, and
there's a lot of code out their that legitimately needs those exceptions to
be thrown for correct behavior.
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