From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-10-04T01:43:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Private visibility should be removed from Ruby 2 [was: Caveats with #method_missing]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

> On 10/3/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> On Oct 3, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
>>  >> a.instance_eval { self.sortable }
>> NoMethodError: protected method `sortable' called for #<struct Name
>> first="foo", last="bar">
>>          from (irb):23
>>          from (irb):23
>>          from :0
>
> So why doesn't a.instance_eval { self.sortable } work ?
> I stand by my statement that pretty much nobody understands  
> "protected".

Because that's a method call, not a function-style call.

James Edward Gray II