From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T02:36:25+09:00
Subject: Re: irb and ruby

>>>>> "D" == David A Black <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

D> I'm not sure why irb doesn't make top-level methods private, but I
D> think that's the only difference (in this area) between irb and Ruby.

 You can change its context

moulon% irb --context-mode 0
irb(main):001:0> def aa() 1+1; end
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> aa
=> 2
irb(main):003:0> self.aa
NoMethodError: private method `aa' called for main:Object
	from (irb):3
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:27
	from :0
irb(main):004:0> 
moulon% 


Guy Decoux