From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@...>
Date: 2005-12-06T23:14:25+09:00
Subject: 1.8.4 and respond_to

Hi,

It seems that since 1.8.3 the behavior of rb_respond_to is now defaulting to 
not include private methods, which it did before.  I understand the motive 
here, as it will cause people to start using rb_obj_respond_to, which is more 
like Object#respond_to?.  However, this broke code in QtRuby and quite 
possibly will break other extensions.

So, I guess what I'm asking is if there's a good reason for altering this 
behavior between minor releases?  It seems much more suited for breaking 
between a larger release, in my humble opinion.

Thanks,
Caleb