From: Rie! <ariekusumaatmaja2@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T20:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: private(true) || private :make_time, what does it do? why?

On 26/03/2008, Peņa, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:

>  qri is your friend
>
>  botp@pc4all:~$ qri private
>  --------------------------------------------------------- Module#private
>      private                 => self
>      private(symbol, ...)    => self
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      With no arguments, sets the default visibility for subsequently
>      defined methods to private. With arguments, sets the named methods
>      to have private visibility.
>
>         module Mod
>           def a()  end
>           def b()  end
>           private
>           def c()  end
>           private :a
>         end
>         Mod.private_instance_methods   #=> ["a", "c"]

if it's only about a method then it's trivial, what I meant was
something like this.

private(*somethingsomething)

anyone can explain it to me more clear?

m:lib arie$ rak "private\(" rake.rb
1091|private(*FileUtils.instance_methods(false))
1092|private(*RakeFileUtils.instance_methods(false))

oh wait, sorry for the noise, I know the answer! so private also
accepts an array of string values which are method names. Thanks for
the clue :-)

>  kind regards -botp

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