From: Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspams@...>
Date: 2005-07-24T09:30:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Local Instance Methods

Gennady Bystritsky a �crit :
> 
> On Jul 23, 2005, at 15:45, Lionel Thiry wrote:
> 
>>
>>> 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?
> 
> 
> Private in Ruby means that methods declared private may be called  only
> without specifying a receiver. A subclass can call a superclass' 
> private method as long as it is called as method() and not self.method
> (). Unlike in Java and C++, where "private" means, well, private for 
> instances of this particular class.
> 
> Gennady.
> 

Ok, I think I understand. It's a kind of "cheap" private mechanism.
Thanks for the explanation.

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