From: Gene Tani Date: 2005-12-07T00:02:57+09:00 Subject: Re: getting around access control > yeah - it's quite strange. unfortunately the 'send' approach won't work > because the actual usage is something like > Anyway, i think the 'send' of private methods is / will be changed in 1.9 so you can't do it anymore. Don't know about the other access control runaround, where you can subclass a class with private meths and declare them public (p 393 of pickax), if that will/is changed in 1.9