[Newbies] Question about style

[Ramon Leon]

> I created the following method to create a convenient way of 
> accessing entries in the dictionary:
> 
> doesNotUnderstand: aSelector
> 	"for unknown selectors, see if we can find an 
> environment variable and return that"
> 	^ self at: aSelector asString ifAbsent: [ super 
> doesNotUnderstand: aSelector ]
> 
> So my question is whether this is considered good style or 
> not?  It works quite well (except the doIt in a workspace 
> pops up to say the selector is unknown).
> 
> This sort of thing is done in Ruby often, and I did find some 
> examples in various classes in my image.
> 
> (Actually one example even defined the missing accessor on 
> the fly - that's really showing off).
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve

I have the same hack in my image, I'm sure many people do.  I use it heavily
because the SoapCore package returns dictionaries from web services calls in
place of object if you haven't registered a specific object for use.  I find
it quite handy.