From: nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T11:07:46+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.4 and respond_to

Hi,

At Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:14:25 +0900,
Caleb Tennis wrote in [ruby-core:06853]:
> 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.

How broken?

> 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.

The reason was:
1) it returned true even if a global method was matched,
2) it didn't conform to the default behavior of Object#respond_to?.

-- 
Nobu Nakada