From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-08T23:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 transfire@gmail.com wrote:

>  object_id
>  object_class
>  object_send
>
> Then for the all methods that bypass access resitrictions:
>
>  instance_send
>  instance_eval
>  instance_exec
>  instance_variable_get
>  instance_variable_set
>  instance_variables
>
> That way it's consistant, intuitive, easy to use and easy to learn.
>
> The only exceptions is #instance_of? But that's moot if you ask me b/c
> it's safer to ask the class anyway. So preferably we would have
> Class#class_of?(obj) plus a word alias for Module#=== like
> Module#ancestor_of?(obj).

why not simply

   send
   send!

   eval
   eval!

   exec
   exec!

etc.

i like the idea - but those are long names!  ;-)

-a
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