From: Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T00:49:37+09:00
Subject: Re: initialize

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 23:06 +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "J" == Jonathan Leighton <lists@turnipspatch.com> writes:
> 
> J> Should initialize() be public, private or protected, and why?
> 
> moulon% cat b.rb
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> class A
>    protected
>    def initialize
>    end
> end
> 
> p A.private_instance_methods(false)
> p A.protected_instance_methods(false)
> moulon% 
> 
> moulon% ./b.rb
> ["initialize"]
> []
> moulon%

Thanks for the reply. Forgive me, but I don't understand what the point
is in your example? Or why initialize is returned by
private_instance_methods() but not protected_instance_methods()? Could
you elaborate a bit please?

Thanks

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