From: greg <greg@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T18:13:41+09:00
Subject: Re: question about private method


On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:33:12 -0700, wang wrote:

> In ruby FAQ :
> The visibility keyword private makes a method callable only in a
> function form, and so it can only have self as a receiver.
> But,why i can't write like below?
> 
> class Test
>   def func
>     self.test   #use self
>   end
>   
>   private
>   def test
>     p "test"
>   end
> end
> 
> t=Test.new
> t.func   >>in `func': private method `test' called for
> #<Test:0x2ac7318>NoMethodError)

class Test
  def func
    test   # DON'T use self
  end
  
  private 
  def test
    p "test"
  end
end

t=Test.new
t.func
t.test # but you only can call test "from self"

$ ruby test.rb
"test"
test.rb:14: private method `test' called for #<Test:0x402a4ef8>
(NoMethodError)
$ _