Chapter 41. Dynamic Reception
Handle messages without defining them in the receiving class.
Also known as: Overriding method_missing or doesNotUnderstand
Any object has a limited set of methods defined for it. A client of an object may attempt to invoke a method that isn’t defined on the receiver. A statically typed language will spot this at compile time and report a compilation error. As a result, you know you won’t get this kind of error at runtime (unless you do some clever fiddling to get around the type system). With a dynamically typed language, you can invoke a nonexistent method at runtime, which usually gives you a runtime error.
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