From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-05T06:26:14+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature."
>    on Wed, 5 Jul 2006 04:23:51 +0900, "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |Will #funcall be the way that I can circumvent private?
>
>  obj.foo(5)            # Throws an error, just as now.
>  obj.send(:foo, 5)     # Throws an error, it's private.
>  obj.funcall(:foo, 5)  # Success. funcall can call private.

what improvement does that give over

   obj.instance_eval{ send :foo, 5 }

??

i mean, what's the purpose of a public method which can call private methods?

-a
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