From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-02-07T13:29:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Private lvalue methods unusable?

Hi,

In message "Re: Private lvalue methods unusable?"
    on 03/02/07, "Dmitri Colebatch" <dim@colebatch.com> writes:

|>   self.send(:dollars=, 100)
|
|I'm assuming there's some good reason for this that isn't apparent to (at
|least) me.  Would someone care to enlighten me out of interest?

"private" does mean "can only be called without explicit receiver".
This is the reason.

							matz.