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05/30/2012

08:24 PM Ruby Feature #6513: Make method_missing to lookup in constants too

@sorah it's probably the best possible example - I met it a while ago in nokogiri and was confused to see "def XML". dirty.Nokogiri.XML.new("<foo />").class - neat
@matz every "new" thing confuses until user learns how it works now. I... egor.homakov (egor homakov)

04:21 AM Ruby Feature #6513: Make method_missing to lookup in constants too

@nobu
>Why do you think so?
any example of method in popular libraries or anything with first capital letter? Why to support what is not needed and messes lookup process?(example above)
> ...
Are you sure, why?
by 'awesome' I mea... egor.homakov (egor homakov)

05/29/2012

10:37 PM Ruby Feature #6513: Make method_missing to lookup in constants too

First letter of constant is always a capital letter(in Ruby).
if you define method:
def Hi
1
end
You're not able to use it w/o ():
Hi
it looks up for constant and raises error. only:
Hi() or send(:Hi)
None of code style ... egor.homakov (egor homakov)

10:37 PM Ruby Feature #6513 (Rejected): Make method_missing to lookup in constants too

=begin
First letter of constant is always a capital letter(in Ruby).
if you define method:
def Hi
1
end
You're not able to use it w/o ():
Hi
it looks up for constant and raises error. only:
Hi() or send(:Hi)
N... egor.homakov (egor homakov)