Are there equivalents to Ruby's method_missing in other languages?

Question

In Ruby, objects have a handy method called method_missing which allows one to handle method calls for methods that have not even been (explicitly) defined:

Answer 1

I was looking for this before, and found a useful list (quickly being overtaken here) as part of the Merd project on SourceForge.

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 Construct                          Language
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 AUTOLOAD                           Perl
 AUTOSCALAR, AUTOMETH, AUTOLOAD...  Perl6
 __getattr__                        Python
 method_missing                     Ruby
 doesNotUnderstand                  Smalltalk
 __noSuchMethod__(17)               CoffeeScript, JavaScript
 unknown                            Tcl
 no-applicable-method               Common Lisp
 doesNotRecognizeSelector           Objective-C
 TryInvokeMember(18)                C#
 match [name, args] { ... }         E
 the predicate fail                 Prolog
 forward                            Io

With footnotes:

• (17) firefox
• (18) C# 4, only for "dynamic" objects