From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T22:13:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:10 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send"
>     on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:03:12 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto  
> <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:
>
> |Because I felt they are different, as I said above.  I admit fcall is
> |not the best name, but very few people would use it.
>
> OK, here's another idea.  How about
>
>   foo.send(:bar)
>
> calls only public methods and
>
>   send(:bar)
>
> calls private methods of the receiver as well?

I really like that, for what it's worth.

James Edward Gray II