From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-12-29T11:53:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Paper on strong Object Oriented Encapsulation (Was: some subject with needless insults)

On Dec 29, 2006, at 2:55 AM, Jeff wrote:

> helps protect instance variables, for example, and I think I read
> recently in a future version of Ruby (2.0?) the use of :send to get at
> private methods/attributes won't be possible anymore either.

That's right, though according to the Ruby Cookbook (footnote on page  
273) you'll ve able to accomplish the same with Object#funcall.

-- fxn

PS: Indeed, I see that mentioned here as well http://eigenclass.org/ 
hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9#l22.