From: Minkoo Seo Date: 2006-02-11T21:03:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Private methods - only available to oneself? Thanks, Erik. I'm afraid that I'm not a native English spearker, so sometimes it's not easy to express my own idea in exact English expression. Of course, I did look up the reference and found what instance_eval does when being called. What I tried to ask was, as you stated, "If we can do this, what's the purpose of 'protected' or 'private'?" Thanks in advance. Best, Minkoo Seo