From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-01-04T07:05:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:

>
> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Paulo K�ch wrote:
>>
>>> On 2006/12/31, at 07:38, Rob Sanheim wrote:
>>>> obj.send(:foo) # will call only public
>>>> obj.send!(:foo) # will bypass private/protected, like the current send.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> ++
>
> Come on guys. Has anyone read my critique? You can "plus one" til the
> cow's come home, but you totally ignore the issues. Show me you know
> something about the issue, tell me _why_. Otherwise  your +1's are
> littel more than cooy feelings.
>
> Do you understand that #send is tantamount to a keyword?

yes.  but it's only keword-like without a receive and

   send! 'private_method'

is fine since

   private_method

is fine too.

-a
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