From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T08:28:01+09:00
Subject: private methods in Ruby

##Won't work method #1

class Foobar
  private
  def foo;  p "Foobar";  end
end

class Baz < Foobar
  def blah; foo; end
end

baz = Baz.new
baz.foo

## Work method #2

class Foobar
  private
  def foo;  p "Foobar";  end
end

class Baz < Foobar
  def blah; foo; end
end

baz = Baz.new
baz.blah

PickAxe2:

If a method is private, it may be called only within the context of
the calling object�it is never possible to access another object's
private methods directly, even if the object is of the same class as
the caller.

So what happens in Method#2, why foo can be easily called, when called
from inside the class Baz? I mean, that method foo should be still
bound to instance baz...so in which context foo gets called in
Method#2.



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