From: Ross Bamford <rosco@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T00:47:35+09:00
Subject: Re: getting around access control

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:01:48 -0000, Gene Tani <gene.tani@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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
>

<possible stupid question>

Isn't access control kind of advisory anyway? Hopefully this isn't about  
to change???

irb(main):001:0> class Clz
irb(main):002:1> def amethod
irb(main):003:2> "amethod"
irb(main):004:2> end
irb(main):005:1> private :amethod
irb(main):006:1> end
=> Clz

irb(main):007:0> Clz.new.amethod
NoMethodError: private method `amethod' called for #<Clz:0xb7eddc18>
         from (irb):7

irb(main):008:0> class Clz
irb(main):009:1> public :amethod
irb(main):010:1> end
=> Clz

irb(main):011:0> Clz.new.amethod
=> "amethod"

</possible stupid question>

Or have I missed something ?

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk
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