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by dgcoffman 3943 days ago
Ruby has a language feature for this and it's pure 100% poison.

http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_method_missing.html
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pekk 3943 days ago
That came from Smalltalk, where it was named doesNotUnderstand. It's always difficult to choose between crippling the language and encouraging stupidity.
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riffraff 3943 days ago
that is neither what OP mentioned (automatic matching of a typo) nor poison.

Also, it's from Smalltalk, and found in some ways also in python, objective-c and many others.

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