Re: [Chicken-users] handle "unbound variable" exception for undefined procedures?

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:53:15AM +0100, Tobia Conforto wrote:
> Mind you, this is the simplest implementation possible, without  
> inheritance, polymorphism or anything useful.  But if you find (or  
> write) a full-fledged object system that works like this (probably  
> based on table lookup instead of static pattern matching) then you  
> will have no trouble adding a handler for unknown methods that fetches  
> the definitions on the fly.

One such object system is Prometheus, for which there's a Chicken egg.
It has a message-not-understood message, which is sent to the object
when the object nor any of its prototypes know of the message.

Cheers,
Peter
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