From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-11-01T13:42:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24052] Re: private instance_variable?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:24047] private instance_variable?"
    on 01/11/01, Chochain Lee <cclee@promethod.com> writes:

|Is there a way to create a 'private' instance_variable in a base
|class? It seems that all instance variables can at most be 'protected'
|but not 'private'. Extended-class can always modify base-class's
|instance variable either purposely or by side-effect!

It's in the ToDo list.  This is something Python can and Ruby can't.

							matz.