From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T22:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Areal noob question

On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Jim Weirich wrote:

> David Ishmael wrote:
>> I'm still learning Ruby (so don't flame me too hard here), but  
>> some of
>> the
>> programming paradigms I've grown accustomed to such as inline scope
>> declarations and type hinting are missed (at least by me).
>>
>> protected foo( SomeObject o ) { ... }
>>
>> In that one line I can tell you that the method is protected and
>> requires
>> SomeObject to be passed to it.  Versus Ruby's:
>>
>> protected
>>
>> def foo( o )
>>     ...
>> end
>
> Can't help much with the protected issue, but

Sure we can!  ;)  Use the other protected method declaration syntax:

def foo...

def bar...

protected :foo, :bar

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II