Hi, In message "Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send" on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:54:20 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack / wobblini.net> writes: |> The point is not being destructive or not, since it's OK in a bang |> method as you described (by quoting me). The point is that I don't |> really feel it's dangerous to call private methods by the new method |> (#fcall, or send!). They are just different. I'm hesitating put a |> bang sign to something I don't feel dangerous. | |Then why do you want to have a separate method for it? :-) Because I felt they are different, as I said above. I admit fcall is not the best name, but very few people would use it. matz.