RE: Pike 8.0 RC1

>Didn't Pike (µlpc, LPC) originally allow 0() with a result of 0, so
>that "/some/object"->do_something() didn't generate an error in case
>the object didn't have the function?

Correct in both cases. From µLPC 1.0E-30 src/interpret.c:

| void apply_shared(struct object *o,
|                   struct lpc_string *fun,
|                   int args)
| {
|   int fun_number;
|   fun_number = find_shared_string_identifier(fun, o->prog);
|   if(fun_number < 0)
|   {
|     pop_n_elems(args);
|     sp++;
|     sp->u.integer=0;
|     sp->type=T_INT;
|   }else{
|     apply_low(o, fun_number, args);
|   }
| }
| 
| void apply(struct object *o, char *fun, int args)
| {
|   int fun_number;
| 
|   fun_number = find_identifier(fun, o->prog);
|   if(fun_number < 0)
|   {
|     pop_n_elems(args);
|     sp->u.integer=0;
|     sp->type=T_INT;
|     sp++;
|   }else{
|     apply_low(o, fun_number, args);
|   }
| }
[...]
| void apply_svalue(struct svalue *s, INT32 args)
| {
|   if(s->type==T_INT)
|   {
|     pop_n_elems(args);
|     push_int(0);
|   }else{
|     strict_apply_svalue(s,args);
|   }
| }

>(Sorry about the historic note.)

No problem :-)