From: Urabe Shyouhei Date: 2008-06-18T15:21:58+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:17317] Re: Major change in 1.8.6: convert_type now uses private conversion methods too OK, nobu and I reverted Object#respond_to and made _load public instead. Please take a try. Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote: > Hi, > > At Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:28:03 +0900, > Urabe Shyouhei wrote in [ruby-core:17289]: > >>> The point is, such internally called methods should be public >>> or can be private. I thought `internally' means that the >>> visibility is not important, because they were actually ignored >>> at the calls. But it might be wrong, especially it seems >>> problematic that global functions can affect them >>> >> Hmm should we make _load public instead? >> > > If we'll revert the changeset, we need it. >