From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T06:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: how private is private in ruby?

Hi --

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Gene Tani wrote:

> the other way to subvert private (or protected) declarations is to
> subclass the class with the private methods, and declare the
> superclass' private method public in the subclass.

I don't think that has any effect.  You could, however, reopen the
class itself and (re)declare the methods public.


David

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