From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-02-07T17:43:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Private lvalue methods unusable?

Hi,

At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:29:58 +0900,
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> |>   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.

It it a bad idea to relax the restriction, "can only be called
without explicit receiver or with `self' receiver"?

  class C
    private
    def x=(val)
      @x = val
    end
    public
    def set_x(val)
      self.x = val	# OK
      self
    end
  end

  C.new.set_x(1)	# OK
  C.new.x = 1		# NG

-- 
Nobu Nakada