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igravious on Jan 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: While writing YAQL I accidentally discovered Lisp

Is this the method_missing function that Ruby invokes when it can't fing the method to was looking for?

http://www.alef1.org/ruby/method_missing/index.html

I guess Ruby ahem borrowed it from doesNotUnderstand in Smalltalk.

froydnj on Jan 10, 2011 [–]

Yes, that's the same thing. It's always fun to realize that $HOT_FEATURE in $LANGUAGE is several decades old, instead of several years.

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