Re: [Readable-discuss] method_missing

2012-07-30 Thread Alpheus Madsen
I may very well be wrong, but I have the impression that Common Lisp has this ability; I just have no idea how to go about capturing a missing method (or even just a missing function). But in any case, such a thing is language dependent, and thus outside the scope of the project. One reason why I

[Readable-discuss] method_missing

2012-07-27 Thread Ben Booth
OK, here's another idea, although it might be outside of the scope of a lisp-reader: Dynamic languages such as perl or ruby have a feature where an attempt to call an undefined function results in the interpreter calling a catch-all function, called method_missing in ruby, and AUTOLOAD in perl. Th