From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T19:49:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23172] Re: enough about Python -- here's something fun in Ruby :-)

Hello --

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
>
> D>   Thing.new.visible  # => hi
> D>   Thing.new.hidden   # => error: hidden method called
>
>  Well, probably I'm stupid but what is the difference with
>
>    class Thing
>       def visible
> 	 hidden
>       end
>       private
>       def hidden
> 	 puts "hi"
>       end
>   end

All that my thing does is put private code in a block, which
conceivably might be nice if you're moving things around and
don't want to have "public" and "private" floating in the file.


David

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