From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-11-02T18:13:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24148] Re: private instance_variable?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:24065] Re: private instance_variable?"
    on 01/11/01, Lars Christensen <larsch@cs.auc.dk> writes:

|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"

I admit it's annoying, but not that much (bacause you're not forced to
do so).

							matz.