From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T23:33:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol#to_proc Problem

Hi,

In message "Re: Symbol#to_proc Problem"
    on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:03:26 +0900, benjohn@fysh.org writes:

|I'm intregued: Why wouldn't you simply use send? The Picaxe defines them
|as synonymous. I've seen arangements where all methods are stripped off
|an object (BlankSlate) except those prefixed with a _. Is that the
|reason?

The receiver may be a socket, which accidentally has send method of
different behavior.

							matz.