From: Mads Kristensen <madsk@...>
Date: 2005-11-06T23:47:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Access control and class methods

Trans wrote:
> It just doesn't work when done in this way becuase public, private and
> protected are only effecting the incance level, so you need to get to
> the class's "instance level", i.e. the class level.

OK. Thanks a lot for the swift reply.

But... it seems a bit messy though doesn't it? I mean, if defining a 
class method should be done with the "inner class" syntax you have just 
described to make the access control work, why is it at all possible to 
define a class method using the "ClassName.methodName" syntax?

Ambiguities like that are no good in programming languages ;-)

And BTW: what does class<<self actually mean? One < would be inheritance 
but what does it mean when there are two?

Best regards,
Mads Kristensen