From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2003-05-16T05:57:44+09:00
Subject: public/protected/private syntax

I tend to find the public/protected/private keywords in Ruby a little odd. 
They don't seem to fit the Ruby syntax. What about the following syntax (for 
Ruby 3.0 :)? The scope of the method would be known by the first caracters of 
its name, the same way as the scope of a variable is determined by $, @, @@ 
or nothing. So:

class Test
  def method1; end   # public method
  def _method2; end  # protected method
  def __method3; end # private method
end

Just throwing an idea,
Guillaume