From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-07-04T03:03:09+09:00
Subject: private method clarification, please

Is this behavior expected?


$ cat t.rb
class C
  def meth1() private_method end
  def meth2() self.private_method end
  def private_method() puts 'you called?' end
  private :private_method
end

c = C.new
c.meth1
c.meth2

$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-cygwin]

$ ruby t.rb
you called?
t.rb:3:in `meth2': private method `private_method' called for
#<C:0x442fdd4> (NoMethodError)
        from t.rb:10


It seems distinctly strange to me that you cannot call a private
method using the self semantics shown in meth2. Is this the expected
behavior?

Blessings,
TwP