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Google tells me to "Please try again"... I apologize if this is a duplicatemessage.

Is there a way to implement the equivalent of the "missing_method" method in Ruby? If you call foo.whatever(args) in Ruby and the whatever method is not defined, then it will call the missing_method method if it is defined passing it "whatever" along with the args.

I realize that I can implement this with defining a function "blah" and then just do foo.blah("whatever", args) but the "blah" is distracting. It is much clearer to call foo.whatever(args). Is there a way to do that in Javascript?

Note, that usually the "whatever" is not a single or even a few possible names but is usually a pattern or a large set such that defining all of them is either not possible until run time or impractical.

Thank you,
pedz

pedz <> writes:

> Is there a way to implement the equivalent of the "missing_method" method in Ruby? If you call foo.whatever(args) in Ruby and the whatever method is not defined, then it will call the missing_method method if it is defined passing it "whatever" along with the args.

Not yet.
ES6 migth contain proxies which can be used to do this, but the
current version of ECMAScript can't do it.

/L
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Lasse Reichstein Holst Nielsen
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 at 18:30:57, in comp.lang.javascript, pedz wrote:
>Google tells me to "Please try again"... I apologize if this is a
>duplicate message.
>
>Is there a way to implement the equivalent of the "missing_method"
>method in Ruby? If you call foo.whatever(args) in Ruby and the
>whatever method is not defined, then it will call the missing_method
>method if it is defined passing it "whatever" along with the args.
>
>I realize that I can implement this with defining a function "blah" and
>then just do foo.blah("whatever", args) but the "blah" is distracting.
>It is much clearer to call foo.whatever(args). Is there a way to do
>that in Javascript?
>
>Note, that usually the "whatever" is not a single or even a few
>possible names but is usually a pattern or a large set such that
>defining all of them is either not possible until run time or
>impractical.

It sounds as though you're trying to use properties for something they
aren't good for. Have you considered other ways? E.g holding names in a
sorted array.

John
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John Harris