From: David Flanagan <david@...>
Date: 2007-11-12T05:16:49+09:00
Subject: Re: method names in 1.9

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 11/11/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
>> What's the use-case/reason for providing a visibility-honoring send?
> 
> Good question. I know that there have been a lot of posts from people
> disappointed that #send doesn't honour visibility, but it's unclear to
> me as to whether or not it's a lot of people, or a vocal minority.
> 
> -austin

There was a discussion on ruby-core.  You can probably find it if you 
search. Back the, Matz was proposing "funcall" as the name of the method 
that would call private methods.

IIRC, the reason for a visiblity-honoring method is so that if your 
intent is to invoke a (public) method that is part of a published API 
you won't inadvertently invoke a (private) implementation-dependent 
helper method with the same name defined by a subclass.  You fail fast 
with an exception rather than getting unexpected behavior that comes 
from calling the wrong method.

	David