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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">I've used Ruby for 3 years now and
this just confused me suddenly about private methods:<br>
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class Foo<br>
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def hello<br>
self.p()<br>
end<br>
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private<br>
<br>
def p<br>
puts 'world'<br>
end<br>
end<br>
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a = Foo.new<br>
a.hello<br>
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This throws an exception which I'm not expecting!<br>
foo.rb:4:in `hello': private method `p' called for #<Foo:0x2911c>
(NoMethodError)<br>
from foo.rb:15<br>
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However if I remove the "self." so the "self." is implied it works! I'm
I going mad?<br>
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</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Arial">class Foo<br>
<br>
def hello<br>
p()<br>
end<br>
<br>
private<br>
<br>
def p<br>
puts 'world'<br>
end<br>
end<br>
<br>
a = Foo.new<br>
a.hello<br>
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My version of ruby is: ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114)
[universal-darwin9.0]<br>
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