http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660No, I am not talking about functional programming, I am talking about functional programming using anonymous delegates, there is a big difference. I don't agree that it is the nuclear option, I consider run time code generate to the 2nd degree that. And I don't think that I ever claimed to be sane :-) http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment6http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment6Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:08:47 GMTYou mean like Functional Programming? Yeah, it's hard to look at but very powerful. Not for the meek. I want method_missing too! Better to empower the developer than disable them. I'm just saying that method_missing is "the nuclear option" - use sparingly if you want to stay sane. How you have stayed sane in all the the über-coding you do is amazing. :) http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment5http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment5Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:01:47 GMTDo you _really_ want to see the code where the whole application is nothing but anonymous delegates and operations on anonymous delegates? There is not doubt that it can be abuse. Hell, just recently Rhino Mocks, NUnit and MbUnit had to do some name space shuffling because all of us wanted the "Is" class for fluent interfaces (but I was there first :-) ). I still want this feature. http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment4http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment4Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:51:39 GMTIt can be abused, though. In Ruby land, many projects like Camping and RSpec (and even Rails) were reaching a point of collisions and nearly impossible debugging. RSpec is being redesigned to have only a couple of method_missing handlers rather that hundreds. http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment3http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment3Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:46:44 GMTWow! JVM rules! http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment2http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment2Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:43:12 GMTOne of the main reasons I am interested in method_missing style features in the CLR is that you can emulate the way that ActionScript 3 handles XML documents, which is, I think, pretty awesome. http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment1http://ayende.com/2273/wanted-methodmissing#comment1Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:55:31 GMT