From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2000-12-21T01:18:07+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7774] Re: Some private_instance_method are not private_methods? Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:7766] Some private_instance_method are not private_methods?" on 00/12/20, "Christoph Rippel" writes: |I am still trying to get a full grasp of the Modulo concept - running |------------------------- |def diff(aModule) | aModule.private_instance_methods- aModule.private_methods |end You are subtracting set of aModule's private methods from set of private instance methods of an instance of a class which includes aModule. The result would be nonsense. Get it? matz.