From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2006-12-25T00:19:54+09:00
Subject: Re: why private is not private

Wayne Vucenic wrote:
> 
> To add to what others have replied, "private" in Ruby
> means that the method cannot be called with an explicit receiver.
> So it can be called from a subclass (which wouldn't work for
> private methods in C++/Java), but it can't be called with
> an explicit "self." (which would work in C++/Java):

Thank you for the input and Merry X-mas to all,

Li

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