From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-07-04T01:36:48+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.

Hi,

In message "Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature."
    on Tue, 4 Jul 2006 00:59:21 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes:

|I haven't noticed invoke_functional_method.  I admit I'm still unclear
|on the (new?) use of the notion of 'function' in addition to
|'method'....  How do you characterize a functional method, in this
|context?

I refer a method invocation without a receiver specified as
"functional style" because it looks like function calls in other
languages.  The name "funcall" and "invoke_functional_method" reflect
that term.

							matz.