From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-12-31T11:14:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things


Daniel Schierbeck wrote:

> I agree that `funcall' is a weird name... "call a function". What
> function? I thought we agreed on calling them methods!

This is kind of interesting. I don't know if matz had this in mind form
the beginning or only realized it later, but

  function = private method

why? because a private method can't be called with a receiver. it's a
very interesting correlation, which makes excellent sense. however, I
agree with you, introducing this concept into the language via a single
meta-coding method called 'funcall' is rather odd, to say the least
(okay, we have module_function too, but that certainly doesn't help
matters!!!)

T.