From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T05:42:03+09:00
Subject: Re: how private is private in ruby?

Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/05, rubyhacker@gmail.com <rubyhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I made an analogy the other day with the movie _Apollo 13_. Remember
> > when Bacon's character had been awake for many hours and was, as he
> > said, "a little punchy"? There was a toggle switch which would
> > separate the two modules (and thus doom to death the other two astro-
> > nauts who were spending their time in the other one). He taped a
> > piece of paper over it saying "NO."
> >
> > That's how "private" works.
> 
> 
> That has got to be one of the best analogies I've read in a long, long time

Agreed! Though there goes our "come on, it's not exactly rocket science"
argument :)

martin