From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-13T00:47:25+09:00
Subject: Re: respond_to? and public/private

Hi,

In message "respond_to? and public/private"
    on 02/01/11, Johan Holmberg <holmberg@iar.se> writes:

|I think the default value of that parameter is a bit unintuitive.
|Wouldn't it be better if the default was depending on the call
|context ?, ie. that
|
|    ......respond_to? :foo......
|
|told if
|
|    ......foo(arguments)......
|
|would succeed in finding a callable function/method.

Do you mean

  respond_to? :foo

reports including private methods, and

  obj.respond_to? :foo

reports only public methods?  What about "protected"?

How about using "defined?" without complicating "respond_to?"
behavior?

  defined? print        # => "method"
  defined? self.print   # => nil

							matz.