From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-04-10T07:11:44+09:00
Subject: Re: private vs. protected question

In case all that was too confusing, to sum up:

private:
You can call private methods from inside public methods.

protected:
Protected methods act mostly like private methods, but in some cases you 
are allowed to specify a receiver; those cases occur when self is equal 
to a member of the same class as the receiver or a subclass of the 
receiver.

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