From: Ruby Admirer <ruby_admirer@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T22:46:07+09:00
Subject: About class methods visibility (public/private)

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Hi all,
   
  Here are some questions regarding the visibility of class methods :
   
  1/ why public, protected, private methods cannot be used for defining the visibility of class methods in addition to defining the visibility of instance methods ? Is there a technical reason or a conceptual reason for this ?
   
  2/ why the protected_class_method is missing ?
  The only methods are private_class_method and public_class_method.
   
  3/ The naming of these methods are quite confusing. Each time I read them I understand "give me the private/public class method ...". The naming is too/very close to private_methods, public_methods, ...
  I would prefer something like class_private, class_protected, class_public.
   
  Thanks for any clarification.
   
   

 
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