From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T23:51:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send


David A. Black wrote:

> I think I would have problems with what you're describing.  This seems
> odd to me:
>
>    class C
>      private
>      def x
>        "x"
>      end
>
>      public
>      def method_missing(m)
>        "method_missing: #{m}"
>      end
>
>      def y
>        x    # public x? no; method_missing? yes
>             # (never gets to the point of checking for
>             #  private x)
>      end
>    end
>
>    C.new.y   #  "method_missing: x"
>
> I'm not sure exactly why, but that feels wrong.  More concretely: if
> you tried to call a private method *from* method_missing, you'd get
> into an infinite loop.  So implementations of method_missing would be
> limited.

Looking at this I left to wonder, would it make sense to have a
public_method_missing()?

T.