From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T00:40:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

"daz" <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk> writes:

> "Immediate method" describes all the bang methods I can
> find (which have no intervening object) but also describes
> #exit!  (exit instantly) perfectly, IMO.  "Direct method"
> would be almost the same.
>
> It would not cover the proposed #send! - this is why it
> touched an inner nerve and prompted me to question
> the proposal.

Sure it would --- #send! would immediately invoke the
specified method without regard to access restrictions.
I think it's intuitively much more immediate than #send,
which has to go through another conceptual layer.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>