From: Patrik Sundberg <ps@...>
Date: 2001-06-07T18:41:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16304] Re: odd obj.send behaviour

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:49AM +0200, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "P" == Patrik Sundberg <ps@radiac.mine.nu> writes:
> 
> P> hmm.. ok. but doesn't undef :gets undefine every occurance of gets from the
> P> class - private as well as public?
> 
>  You have undefined #gets in RbObjGwHandle, but you call @gw.send(:gets)
> 
>  Undef #gets in DRb::DRbObject (i.e. the class of @gw) and it will work.

ok. i get it.

> P> using eval i seem to end up in Kernel#gets if I don't undef :gets in the
> P> server class. I still don't really get this..
> 
>  Same problem with the server. If you don't undef #gets, ruby will try to
>  call Kernel#gets but this time for the server.

ok. i thought my eval("@gw."+methId.to_s) would search only for the public
method in the server class? has eval different scoping rules than a normal
obj.methodname call? to me it seems so..

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