From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2000-10-11T12:22:24+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:5407] Re: Object.foo, setters and so on Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:5406] Re: Object.foo, setters and so on" on 00/10/11, Yasushi Shoji writes: |def bar=(value) | p value |end | |bar = 5 | |> It tells me that bar is private. Why? | |because you defined private method :) this thing came up on -talk a |few days ago, no? Yes. But setter should always be public. I'll fix this. matz.