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Re: a class that looks like (kind_of?) several classes

Eric Mahurin

5/10/2005 7:53:00 PM

> > Thanks. I assumed that the StringIO class inherited from
> the
> > IO class since it has all of the same methods. So the
> proper
> > Ruby style is to use respond_to? instead of kind_of? to see
> > what "type" your arguments are?
>
> The common Ruby style is to not check at all, but just send
> the messages
> needed to get the job done. If the object is inappropriate,
> Ruby will
> catch it and let you know what it didn't like.

I was referring to the case when a method does different things
based on the argument "types" (i.e. String#[]=). I'll just
start using "respond_to?" instead. I was using both.





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1 Answer

dblack

5/18/2005 4:26:00 PM

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