From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-08-25T05:29:19+09:00
Subject: Re: send! instead of funcall

Hi --

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Daniel Berger wrote:

> David Flanagan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Since funcall and __send! were the topic of a very long thread some time 
>> ago, I wanted to point out that Matz has just changed eval.c to remove 
>> funcall and replace it with send!.  We now have a more logical set of 
>> aliases:
>> 
>> send, __send, and __send__ can invoke private methods only when they are 
>> themselves invoked as functions without an explicit receiver.
>> 
>> send! and __send! can always invoke private methods.
>> 
>> funcall never really fit, and I'm happy to see it removed.
>
> Good, then you can rewrite all my C extensions for me when 2.0 is officially 
> released.

That's what ruby -pi is for :-)


David

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