From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2007-01-25T04:12:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method'


On Jan 24, 2007, at 5:20 AM, Pit Capitain wrote:

> Robert Dober schrieb:
>> (... something like the following ...)
>
>   ma = a.method(:x)
>   mb = ma.unbind.bind(b)
>
> Robert, this is a nice counter example to what I've written. In  
> this case the object "b" surely hasn't received anything. So I  
> guess its role is really only that of a #bound_object.

In going back through this thread I realized that I hadn't understood  
the
implications of Robert's suggestion at the time.  In my recent long post
about this I 'rediscovered' his example.  So I certainly wasn't the  
first
person to point out this situation.

For me personally, I didn't really understand David's uneasiness about
Method#receiver until I realized that the 'send/receive' metaphor only
describes an early *portion* of the entire message dispatch process even
though it is almost always used (inaccurately in my mind) to describe
the entire process.


Gary Wright