From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T00:25:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

"David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

>      def m
>        n                # yes
>        send(:n)         # yes
>        self.n           # no
>        self.send(:n)    # no
>      end

By the way, why not let `self.foo' bypass access
restrictions regardless of the value of foo?

We now have this:

   Private methods cannot be called with explicit receivers,
   except for private writer methods, which can be called
   with an explicit receiver of `self'.

That would be simplified to this:

   Private methods cannot be called with any explicit
   receiver other than `self'.

When the explicit receiver is `self', enforcing access
restrictions seems rather silly regardless of the method.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>