Hi --

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, David Weldon wrote:

> I'm a confused about why the following code works:
>
> class Foo
>   private
>   def hello
>      puts "hello"
>   end
> end
> f = Foo.new
> f.send(:hello)
>
> whereas
> f.hello will obviously fail.
>
> I have tried this with private member setting as well and it also works.
> Is send supposed to operate this way? The rdoc for it don't seem to
> mention this. Thanks!

Yes, send ignores the private status.  In 2.0 there will be a version
of send that doesn't and one that does.  It's not certain what they'll
be called (but if you have nothing to do for the next week or two you
can look at the discussions about it :-)


David

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