From: "Bartosz DziewoƄski" Date: 2012-07-06T02:39:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Can you call private methods with explicit receivers? 2012/7/5 Jingjing Duan : > > > Why can m2 call self.m1= which is a private method? Probably because it would be otherwise impossible (except for using #send), as `m1 = "hello"` would have been local variable assignment and not method call. -- Matma Rex