From: Adam Prescott <adam@...>
Date: 2011-11-23T23:33:48+09:00
Subject: Re: private and protected

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On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 14:08, Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@googlemail.com
> wrote:

> The call 'self.phrase' is a call to a class method but 'def phrase' is
> the definition of an instance method. Either remove the self in the
> say method or change 'def phrase' to 'def self.phrase'.
>
> It has nothing to do with private or protected.
>

This isn't correct, it has everything to do with private or protected! The
methods and method calls in the example are all instance methods, not class
methods. self.class.phrase would be a class method call.

As Daniel has said, the "problem" is that private methods may not be called
with an explicit receiver.

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