From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2008-04-25T23:19:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any nomenclature for private methods?

On Apr 25, 2008, at 16:09 , David A. Black wrote:

> Unfortunately (in my opinion), I believe that's been reverted, so that
> #send will be what it always has been and a new method, #public_send,
> will be send that only works on public methods.

The Ruby Programming Language says so on page 274.