From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T11:56:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things


dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> BTW the earlier discussion of this, for those interested, starts at:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/153833

Wow. That's a great thread! I esspecially liked the idea of #send as
the methodized form of the dot. And Jacob Fugal's insight that if send
called private and obj.send only prublic then

  class Object
    def instance_send( ... )
      send( ... )
    end
  end

can be used to bypass privacy.

The thread ends with a great analysis by Peter Vanbroekhoven on how
Ruby's public vs. private and method_missing are not wholey consistant.

Thanks!
T.