From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T12:35:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things

On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Trans wrote:

> If Ruby sticks with #2 were actually in luck, there's already a
> unspoken precedence for important meta-methods to stay out of the way
> of common names, namely those prefixed with object_ (as in object_id)
> and instance_ (as in instance_variable_get) One for public sending
> (object_send) and one for private sending (instance_send) --at  
> least in
> MHO.

We're not sending an object though, we're sending a message.  Perhaps  
send_message() would be a less clashed name, but I doubt it.

James Edward Gray II