From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-07-04T14:07:35+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.

Hi,

In message "Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature."
    on Tue, 4 Jul 2006 00:37:31 +0900, "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:

|Any chance we can get #invoke_method added to Ruby 1.8.5 so that we
|can use it instead of #__send__? I've got a lot of #__send__ calls in
|places. It would also be useful to know which of these sorts of things
|will be used for private calls (e.g., I have code that must be able to
|call methods that are otherwise private).

I am not yet sure how much preferable adding 1.9 methods to the stable
version.  Since it is mere addition, it should not cause much
problems, but increasing number of methods may be considered as being
"unstable" for the stable version.  Any idea?

							matz.