From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2008-09-16T19:11:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Precedence of Private and Public methods

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> Hi!
>
> Does anyone know what's the precedence between private and public
> methods.
>
> Doing some tests I found that private methods have higher precendence
> than public ones , but I don't understand why.Any sugesstions?
>
> Example:
> class Class
>
>  def inherited(child)
>    p "public inherited"
>  end
>
>  private
>  def inherited(child)
>    p "private inherited"
>  end
> end



This isn't a precedence issue -- the second method simply overwrites the
first since it comes later. Try moving the public one after the private one
(and preface it with 'public') and see what happens.

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