From: "John N. Alegre" <info@...>
Date: 2006-03-01T23:28:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Confused about "private"??

Matz,

Thank you so much for taking the time to post this.  It is great to get it
from the source.

I understand your point and the self.call thing is a small thing to get used
to considering the beauty of everything else.

Peace
john

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Unlike Smalltalk, Ruby has methods to be called like functions in
> other languages, for example, "print".  They are set private to avoid
> confusion.
> 
> matz.