From: Trans Date: 2005-07-23T23:50:57+09:00 Subject: Local Instance Methods Hi All-- I know there are plans to give Ruby private instance variables, but I'm wondering if there are any plans to provide the corresponding type of thing for methods, i.e. local instance methods. To clarify, a local instance method is a method that does not participate in the inheritance chain and is only callable from within the class it is defined. T.