From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-13T00:17:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5463] Re: Object.foo, setters and so on

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5450] Re: Object.foo, setters and so on"
    on 00/10/12, Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|I think it's not consistent with other top-level methods.
|It's enough to print a warning message on the definition, isn't
|it?

I don't feel it's inconsistent (see `initialize').  It's a matter of
choice.  We can choose either a) make it public b) leave private with
warning.

							matz.