From: GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@...>
Date: 2001-08-12T17:33:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19586] Re: Why not access control for instance and class variables?

From: Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@acc.umu.se>
Subject: [ruby-talk:19582] Re: Why not access control for instance and class variables?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:34:31 +0900

> What about using Module#private to explicitly declare private variables.
> Since we already have @private it seems confusing to introduce a second
> mechanism to do something similar.

Module#private only prohibits explicitly-specified-receiver invocation
form, e.g., "self.p" would cause NameError.  On the other hand
@private has never receiver because it is not a method.  The meaning
of `private' seems slightly different between variable and method.
So, "private :@private" looks tricky, IMHO. 

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