From: Lars Christensen <larsch@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T18:02:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24065] Re: private instance_variable?

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.

Related to this, will there be private/protected constants? I don't
particularly enjoy that this is possible:

$ ./ruby -e 'p String::Process::Regexp::Enumerable::IO::String.new("foo")'
"foo"

-- 
Lars Christensen, larsch@cs.auc.dk