From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T09:02:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method'

Hi,

In message "Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method'"
    on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:03:35 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes:

|That's all correct, but the word "receiver" doesn't communicate it to
|me.  Given this:
|
|   m = a.method(:x)
|
|I do not consider it optimal to describe a as m's "receiver".  It's a
|re-definition of the term, and I think it would lead to confusion.

"a.method(:x)" looks up a method corresponding message :x, so that we
can invoke the method later.  It is more accurate to call it "target"
or "bound_method", as you pointed.  But I feel like there's a
convention to call the target (or self) of a method as a "receiver" in
OOP context.  Given that context, it's natural to call "a" receiver.

							matz.