Looking over 1.9's change of #send, ie.

send doesn't always call private methods anymore (#__send, #__send!,
#funcall)
ruby-talk:153672 It is still possible to call them with the newly
introduced #__send! and funcall methods.

Can I make a modest proposal? Can we preserve backward compatibility,
keeping #send as is, and instead pick a new name for the "proper"
public send? I think it would be much better to keep backward
compatibity rather than stress over exact terms ( yes, I'm learning to
make the tough choices ;-) There doesn't seem any good reason to
change how #send works if we are just going to have the same
functionality in another ordinary method, ie. #funcall.

As for a name for the new method, I know #call won't do b/c of Proc,
unless we want to make an exception for Proc and Proc-like objects --
which seems a viable option. But I'm sure their are other good choices
too.

T.