From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T14:15:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Private visibility should be removed from Ruby 2 [was: Caveats with #method_missing]


Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Because Ruby is not Smalltalk.  Really.
>
> Let me elaborate a bit.  Since I made the syntax of Ruby more
> traditional than Smalltalk's "everything is a message passing" style,
> you can write traditional code in Ruby, for example:
>
>   print "hello world\n"
>
> rather than
>
>   "hello world" printIt.
>
> or something like that.  If everything procedure is a method, what
> should I do?  There were several choices, and I chose "print" to be a
> method with implicit receiver, but made it "private" to detect weird
>
>   "foobar".print "hello world\n"
>
> as an error.  If you want to remove "private" from Ruby2, I expect
> your proposal addresses the above issue.

That's interesting. The difference between function and method?

T.