From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T11:32:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things

On 1/3/07, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Gregory Brown wrote:
>
> > On 12/31/06, Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 12/31/06, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> What about:
> >>
> >> obj.send(:foo) # will call only public
> >> obj.send!(:foo) # will bypass private/protected, like the current send.
> >
> > +1.  This sounds great.  (sorry for the late reply)
>
> BTW the earlier discussion of this, for those interested, starts at:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/153833

David, thanks for linking this. It's good to see this has come up
before and have some additional context.