From: Ruby Admirer <ruby_admirer@...>
Date: 2007-03-24T03:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: About class methods visibility (public/private)

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> Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

>(Unlike Java and such) visibility in Ruby are very trivial, so I don't
>want to make things more complex for the sake of visibility.  I'd
>rather remove them altogether unless compatibility problem arise.

If you don't want to rename the 2 methods and if you can't remove them for compatibility reasons, you can at least make them deprecated.
This will be better for newcomers like me.


 
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