From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-08-03T03:50:25+09:00
Subject: Re: #send in 1.9



On Aug 2, 12:32 pm, dbl...@rubypal.com wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
> > On Aug 2, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Trans wrote:
>
> >> There doesn't seem any good reason to
> >> change how #send works if we are just going to have the same
> >> functionality in another ordinary method, ie. #funcall.
>
> > Well, there's the reason of the name of the method.  You "send" an object a
> > message and you shouldn't be allowed to send private messages.
>
> You're allowed to send any message; it's up to the object what to do
> with it :-)  You could similarly say that you can only call
> non-private functions.
>
> In fact, the problem for me is that the names don't tell you what's
> happening; you just have to know.

I agree. A rose smells just as sweet . . .

I just hate the thought of all the programs that will break for what
seems like a rather minor distinction in semantics.

T.