From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-05-17T05:32:49+09:00
Subject: Re: public/protected/private syntax

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 04:29:16AM +0900, Guillaume Marcais wrote:
> 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. 

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

What's the latest proposal?

private def method   ???

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