From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T04:50:32+09:00
Subject: Re: how private is private in ruby?

Hi --

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Peter Ertl wrote:

> not a big deal.. i pretty much enjoy the freedom of ruby!
>
> I have years of java type safety and design pattern torture
> behind me and ruby is the light at the end of the tunnel :-)
>
> however, wouldn't it make sense to forbid Object#send
> when using a specific taint level?

There was a fairly huge thread not long ago on the matter of having
two versions of 'send', one of which would include private methods and
the other of which wouldn't.  I don't think anything was decided,
except that Matz didn't like my idea of 'send' vs. 'send!' :-)


David

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David A. Black
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