From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-09-01T00:26:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20632] Re: Weird things with eval

Hello --


On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:20627] Re: Weird things with eval"
>     on 01/08/31, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
>
> |Is there any reason why send() could not be changed to obey the access
> |rules?
>
> Always remember that access rules in Ruby are just fool proof.  So
> it's useful to prepare backdoor for them.

Isn't this more like a front door, though? :-)  I don't know -- maybe
it never matters in practice, but it still seems like a lot of power
to give to #send, which otherwise (I think) behaves like a drop-in
replacement for message-sending.


David

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