From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-06-11T02:01:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Why private #binding?

Hi,

In message "Re: Why private #binding?"
    on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:29:32 +0900, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> writes:

|I can think of two potential reasons.
|
|1. Because binding exposes the internals of the receiver.
|
|2. because if it were public then in a case like:
|
|
|class A
|    def self.binding_of(b)
|        b.binding
|    end
|end
|
|A.binding_of("abc")
|
|might well return a binding with self == A, rather than the string,
|because binding returns the bindings "at the point of call"

The latter one was the biggest reason for me.

							matz.