From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2002-01-27T06:01:17+09:00
Subject: Re: "friend" alternative in Ruby?

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:53, Phil Tomson wrote:
> but the regular 'send' seems to also work for calling private methods,
> what's the difference between '__send__' and 'send'?
>
> Phil

Phil,

AFAIK they are the same, you just use __send__ if the name 'send' clashes 
with with an existing method in the object. I use __send__ always instead of 
send. A matter of taste I suppose.

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Holden Glova
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