From: Igor Pirnovar <lists@...>
Date: 2013-04-01T08:53:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Private setters can be called by self, why not getters?

Josh Cheek wrote in post #1103882:

> I rarely want to expose either. In my code example, why can I call
> `self.count=` but not `self.count` ?

As Tony asid, it's a hack! Private methods (except attribute_writers) in
Ruby can not be called on explicit receivers! That's how private is
defined in Ruby, namely, no calls on explicuit receivers. Likwise the
combined assignment operators will not work, if you define accesors as
private. Sorry, I failed to show that clearly in my example segregating
the private setter and public getter above :(

Cheers, igor

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