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Can you elaborate on why you think method_missing is bloat?


As another commenter said,

> it’s about your taste and philosophy.

Personally, method_missing goes against both of mine. It makes programs harder to reason about, more difficult to debug, and nearly impossible to `grep`. That said, I understand that this kind of flexibility is what some people like. I just don’t.




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