From: Peter Date: 2004-12-06T17:35:06+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] patch to "make def return something useful" > I wonder if this might cause confution. > > class Foo > public def foo > end > end > class Bar > private Foo.instance_method(:foo) > end Right, at some point I thought of this, but forgot to actually add the check. BTW, what is the reason for setting the method's free routine to -1? > Aren't Method#public etc. superfluous? Yep, just that that was the only way I could get it to work right with my still limited knowledge :-) Thanks for showing me how to remove them. But I wonder: the download page shows 0 downloads for version 0.2 of the patch, but you obviously must have downloaded it. Did you do something special to bypass the counter or is it just way off? Peter