On Aug 2, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Trans wrote:

> 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.

Well, there's the reason of the name of the method.  You "send" an  
object a message and you shouldn't be allowed to send private messages.

James Edward Gray II