From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-14T06:22:55+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables

Wait, wait, wait... I think someone should really have defined what
private variables in Ruby really are.

Using C++ terminology, I think the private variables in Ruby are really
like C++ "private" variables.  In the current Ruby, instance variables are
always "protected", and they can only be made "public" by the accessor
functions.

Regards,

Bill
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Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
> Tom Sawyer wrote:
>> so were talking about instance variables being private? ugh, i'm
>> confused (sorry i didn't catch the whole of this thread) arn't instance
>> variable always private? you can only access them through accessor
>> methods. i'm missing somthing here.

> They are object private, but not class private. (Puritans and C++
> programmers would say they are "protected", since the subclass can reach
> them.)