From: Guillaume Marcais <guillaume.marcais@...>
Date: 2003-05-17T04:29:16+09:00
Subject: Re: public/protected/private syntax

On Friday 16 May 2003 11:53 am, you wrote:

> Why would private methods be documented? They belong to the implementation
> of a class, not to its interface.

No quite true. You can call all the private method of the Kernel module, 
can't you? A private method can be call as long as there is no receiver 
specified. 

The proposed syntax would apply to module too (cheering and applause :).

> As for protected, you're only going to need it if you intend your class
> to be inherited and want to expose some part of the implementation to
> subclasses, which does certainly not happen in the case of the core
> classes.
>
> Inheritance is not really used a lot in Ruby, because
>   "it's at best implementation sharing" (matz dixit)