From: Frank Meyer Date: 2007-08-03T03:00:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Private methods not so private? Hello everybody, thanks for your explanations. And I didn't know that ruby allows the reading and setting (and even creation) of instance variables. What does class_eval do? And actually I'm using Ruby 1.8.6 I confused the version number with those in the book. Turing -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.