From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-07T01:40:39+09:00
Subject: Re: delegate and unless for __

On 05.05.2009 22:50, Raj Singh wrote:
> Anytime I see the delegate code usually there is an unless along with
> it. The code might look like this.
> 
> Object.instance_methods.each do |m|
>   delegate m, :to => :@model unless m =~ /^__/
> end
> 
> 
> I am thinking that __ is escaped so that one could called
> object.__SEND__ and this call will not be sent to the delegate. Is that
> the reason why __ is not delegated to the delegate or the actual
> reasoning is something else?

I think you're spot on.  There seems to be a convention that method 
whose names start with underscores are not really meant to be part of 
the regular public interface (such as "__send__").

Kind regards

	robert