From: elbows@... (Nathan Weston) Date: 2003-09-06T02:30:16+09:00 Subject: Equivalent of "friend" or package-level access? I have a group of related classes, and I would like them to have certain methods which can only be called by classes within the group. In C++ I would use "friend", in java I would use the "package" access modifier. Is there a ruby equivalent? Nathan