From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-08T23:34:20+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.

Hi --

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> 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!  ;-)

Maybe Sean was right that you and I are really saying the same thing
in different ways :-)  At least, we seem to have converged on "send!".


David

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