From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T08:53:11+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.

Hi,

In message "Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature."
    on Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:00:08 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes:

|Until people start saying, "Wait -- I thought these things were called
|'methods' in Ruby.  What's a 'function'?  Is it a method?  Is it just
|a method without an explicit receiver?

But we already have module_function, which has never been complained
for more than 10 years.  I think it's OK to meet small confusion for
the first timers, if we can use the name with right mnemonic for the
functionality.  Probably the reason behind the funcall is my Lisp
background.

							matz.