From: Dharmarth Shah Date: 2007-11-24T20:57:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Access modifier : private Thanks a lot Stefano! That was really helpful. One more help. What's the rationale in sharing Class level variables with subclasses? Is there any way to restrict Class level variables and Class level methods to restrict to class itself? ~Dharmarth -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.