From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-08-06T08:21:04+09:00
Subject: Re: question about symbol naming convention

"Charles Steinman" <acharlieblue@gmail.com> writes:

> 2. The meaning of "private" in Ruby is "cannot be called
> with an explicit receiver."

No, it's "cannot be called with an explicit receiver unless
the method name ends with an equals sign and the explicit
receiver is the four characters `self'."

By the way, why not simplify that to "cannot be called with
an explicit receiver other than the four characters `self'"?

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>