From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T14:28:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Private visibility should be removed from Ruby 2 [was: Caveats with #method_missing]

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.
All right. Just for that, I'm going into all my code and changing my 
print statements to "foobar".send(:print) statements.*

Seriously, though, you know, a pox on any body that wants to type 
"foobar".print "hello world\n". (A more realistic mistake would, of 
course, be "foobar".puts.) In Io, the "OO" 5 print and the "procedural" 
write(5) coexist just fine.

Wait, what are we talking about? You know, I should never respond to a 
post without reading the whole thread. Well, whatever it is, I agree 
with Jim Weirich.

Devin
* s/send/funcall/g... you get the idea.