From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T07:03:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Having a block executed in the context of an instance


<dblack@wobblini.net> wrote

> You can look at it the other way around, though: you *always* specify
> a receiver explicitly in Ruby, except in the one case where the
> receiver is self and the syntax is such as to be unambiguously a
> method call.

Not quite. I believe
    self.foo
does completely different privacy checks than just
    foo

Specifically,
    self.foo
on a private foo will fail, while
    self.foo=
on private foo= will succeed.