[madis]

Ruby to me seems to follow this description rather well. The "cells" in close vicinity are the objects in ancestor chain. If the "closest cell" - object's class - can't respond to it, next further, which is its parent, will be given chance and so on. Also you can ask object if they know how to respond with `respond_to?`

It's a bit more involved than that - modules can be included and prepended. In a sense "re-arranging the which cells are close and further". Also `method_missing` can be implemented. Beautiful in my opinion.