From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-03-02T22:57:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Modules and methods

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:32:14 +0900, Javier Valencia <jvalencia@log01.org> wrote:
> I see that with instance methods happens the same:
> 
> module MyMod
> 
>     def mymethod
>         puts "hello"
>         priv_method
>     end
> 
>     private
>     def priv_method
>         puts "world"
>     end
> 
> end
> 
> include MyMod
> 
> priv_method
> 

If I understand it correctly, then including MyMod into Object, makes
priv_method a private method of Object. So when you call priv_method
inside of object it can access it.

If you try to do

include MyMod

self.priv_method

it will throw an error, because priv_method is private. Maybe it all
can become clearer if you include MyMod into another class than Object
because you are doing things implicitly here.

HTH,

Brian

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