Feature #9947: Make `Object#send` and `Object#method` private

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)]

I propose to make Object#send and Object#method private.

• If someone wants to use public #send or #method with their class, they can easily opt in :

class MyClass
  public :send, :method
end

• They can also use BasicObject#__send__. (There is however a mismatch between BasicObject#__send__ and Kernel#__method__.)

• There is hardly any good reason IMO to use public #send or #method with someone else's classes.

• I am trying to never call #send or #method with an explicit receiver, but since #send and #method are public anyway, i feel that my code will be under-appreciated if someone looks at it.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Project changed from 14 to Ruby master