From: Julian Fondren <ayrnieu@...>
Date: 2004-06-21T14:46:11+09:00
Subject: Re: About top-level method

> In irb, I tested it like the following.
> 
> def my_f
>   p "my_f"
> end
> 
> Object.my_f #=> print "my_f"
> obj = Object.new
> obj.my_f #=> print "my_f"

Well, you tested it in irb.
Consider:

julian@tenacity test $ cat >> priv-test.rb
def my_f
  p "my_f"
end

Object.my_f
obj = Object.new
obj.my_f
julian@tenacity test $ ruby -w priv-test.rb
priv-test.rb:5: private method `my_f' called for Object:Class (NoMethodError)