From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-08T01:32:14+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.

Hi --

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Logan Capaldo wrote:
>
>> Steal another name from lisp?
>> 
>> obj.apply(:meth, 1, 2, 3)
>> 
>> It's not send, but it's not funcall either.
>> 
>> obj apply your :meth function to the arguments 1,2,3
>> 
>> Just throwing stuff out there, feel free to ignore me :)
>
> i was just about to suggest that name.  still, there is nothing which implies
> are receiverless context sensitive call that can access private methods with
> that name is there?

No -- which is why I like it much more than 'funcall' and such :-)  It
doesn't introduce the criterion of "receiverlessness" into a situation
where the concept of having or not having a receiver isn't relevant.


David

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