From: Erik Veenstra <pan@...>
Date: 2006-02-11T18:43:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Private methods - only available to oneself?

Private methods are only callable from within the same objects.
In your, situation, that's not happening. You are calling bar
of one Foo object from another Foo object.

You should use "protected" to "define" that behavior.

See below.

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

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 class Foo
 protected
   def bar
     puts "hi"
   end
 end

 class Foo
 public
   def duh
     f = Foo.new
     f.bar
   end
 end

 f = Foo.new
 f.duh

 f = Foo.new
 f.bar          # Should fail...

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