From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T06:37:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

Hi --

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, David A. Black wrote:
>
>> Hi --
>> 
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Daryl Richter wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm a Smalltalker, so I agree that characterizing this as "dangerous" is 
>>> overstated.  I think "advanced feature" is perhaps more accurate?
>> 
>> I'm a Rubyist, and I think it's a close call :-)  Admittedly, part of my
>> clinging to send! is my desire not to see a completely different method 
>> name
>> for the non-private version.  But I haven't come up with anything very
>> inspired by way of an alternative to fcall.
>
>  dispatch(a_message, *args, &block)
>
>  post(a_message, *args, &block)

My problem with this kind of name is that it isn't clear which one
would include private methods and which one wouldn't.  It would be
arbitrary, and one would just have to memorize it (and, in explaining
it, would probably have to account for it as being "for historical
reasons" or some such).


David

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David A. Black
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