From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-01-23T21:56:05+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 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:54:51 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes:

|I think it's that I see this:
|
|   a.x
|
|and this:
|
|   m = a.method(:x)
|   m.call
|
|as two different ways to achieve the goal of executing x with a as
|self.  In the first, a receives the message "x".  In the second -- as
|I see it -- a does not receive the message "x"; it's a different path,
|a non-message-receiving path, to the same goal.

Perhaps the message was sent to the object a for both cases.  In the
former case, the message was interpreted as a command.  In the latter
case, the message was a method selector.

							matz.