From: wwayya2004@... (wang)
Date: 2004-06-10T19:13:46+09:00
Subject: Re: question about private method

wwayya2004@hotmail.com (wang) wrote in message news:<dc1b9b9.0406081833.6228ed2e@posting.google.com>...
> 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)

Thanks all!
Maybe i wasn't express my thought clearly.  
I read "...it can only have self as a receiver..." in FAQ, so i call
"test" with "self" but wrong. What the really mean of "self" in FAQ?