From: Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspams@...>
Date: 2005-07-24T07:45:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Local Instance Methods

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> Hi All--
> 
> I know there are plans to give Ruby private instance variables,

Ruby will have private instance variables? What a good idea! But how
will that work?

> 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.
> 

I don't understand. Isn't what the private keyword is for?

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Lionel Thiry

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