From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T23:48:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

On 8/28/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> BUT this would BREAK old programs. Many of us have depended on the fact
> that #send shoots past access controls. Now I'm not saying it's
> necessarily a bad idea --certianly the ! can be used for more than just
> in place modifiers, that's fine. So I'll go along if Matz really wants
> to do this, but it would mean a lot of code fixes.

Maybe it should be __send__ that allows access past private controls
and #send that allows the other. I donno.

>   node."@attribute-name"
> 
> Please give it some thought. Thanks.

Thought about it. Hated it. No, thanks. It's too ugly for words.

-austin
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