From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2010-09-11T00:04:30+09:00 Subject: Re: calling private accessors > > in this case, i only want the accessor to be acessible to the class and its > subclasses, mainly because the subclasses need to be able to override the > 'storage mechanism' (ie: backing field vs hash or something)... it's a bid > of an edge-case though :) > that is called 'protected' not 'private' - just that change should do it. -a