Forced obfuscation of local function calls

Learn why Ruby is a badly designed mess if you don't know it already: http://ceaude.twoticketsplease.de/articles/ruby-and-the-principle-of-unwelcome-surprise.html

Ruby is actually a very nice language, and these are just retarded quirks.

Using the variables names that are the same as functions is retarded programming. I would argue that the language shouldn't even allow this, or have an option.