From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-07-24T01:41:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Local Instance Methods

Trans wrote:

>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.
>  
>
That's interesting... what's a use case for that?

Devin