From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-06T03:44:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent of "friend" or package-level access?

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 02:30:16 +0900, Nathan Weston wrote:
> 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?

No. You might be able to make it yourself using Ruby meta-programming.

-austin
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