On 8/29/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight / gmail.com> wrote: > It breaks encapsulation for anything to call a private method other than > the object itself... So, I guess it needs to have scope... > We have open classes remember :) It isn't so much a problem that send/send! can break encapsulation, rather it is "when you want to break encapsulation, how do you want to do it?" Douglas