From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T22:44:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

On 30/08/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

+1

I never knew that send is not equivalent to the dot and would like it
if reality adopted to my imagination instead of the other way around
;-)

regards,

Brian

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