Allow calling a private method with `self.`

This makes it consistent with calling private attribute assignment
methods, which currently is allowed (e.g. `self.value =`).

Calling a private method in this way can be useful when trying to
assign the return value to a local variable with the same name.

[Feature #11297] [Feature #16123]

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/spec/ruby/language/send_spec.rb b/spec/ruby/language/send_spec.rb
index 4ba3dcc9c2..cce2e1acb9 100644
--- a/spec/ruby/language/send_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/ruby/language/send_spec.rb
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ end
 describe "Invoking a private getter method" do
   it "does not permit self as a receiver" do
     receiver = LangSendSpecs::PrivateGetter.new
-    -> { receiver.call_self_foo }.should raise_error(NoMethodError)
+    -> { receiver.call_self_foo }.should_not raise_error(NoMethodError)
     -> { receiver.call_self_foo_or_equals(6) }.should raise_error(NoMethodError)
   end
 end