From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T19:47:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Is my method defined?

Hi --

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:

> Fredrik wrote:
>> I will open my Ruby book and look into that send thing...
>
> send is quite simple actually:
> send("foo") is the same as foo
> send("foo", bar) is the same as foo(bar)
> object.send("foo", bar) is the same as object.foo(bar)
> That's basically it.

Almost :-)

>> c.send("x")
=> nil
>> c.x
NoMethodError: private method `x' called for #<C:0x3c95ec>


David

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