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What does it mean when a method is declared private?
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It can be called with an implicit receiver, but not an explicit one
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What does it mean when a method is declared private?
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It can only be called by objects of the same class
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What is a receiver?
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The object that receives a method call (e.g. object.method)
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What does Object#send(symbol) do?
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Sends an object a symbol to be called as a method (e.g. object.send(:hello) == object.hello)
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What does super do?
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Tries to call a method with the same name as the current method, but defined in the object's superclass
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How do you get the name of the current method (as a symbol)?
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__method__
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