[Rubycocoa-devel 800] Re: Minor issue with self.privateMethod

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Jacob Wallström jacob****@gmail*****
Thu Mar 1 22:49:14 JST 2007


You're right. The self.privateMethod call did work in RubyCocoa  
0.4.3d2 so I wrongly assumed that it was legal Ruby. (BTW, this is  
odd, I thought they meant the same thing, that the self object is  
just implicit if you don't explicitly give an recipient.)

/Jacob

On 28 feb 2007, at 17.01, brian hammond wrote:

> irb(main):001:0> class A
> irb(main):002:1> def initialize
> irb(main):003:2>   self.foo
> irb(main):004:2> end
> irb(main):005:1> private
> irb(main):006:1> def foo
> irb(main):007:2>   puts "hi"
> irb(main):008:2> end
> irb(main):009:1> end
> => nil
> irb(main):010:0> A.new
> NoMethodError: private method `foo' called for #<A:0x7e02c>
>         from (irb):3:in `initialize'
>         from (irb):10:in `new'
>         from (irb):10
>         from :0
>
> irb(main):011:0> class A
> irb(main):012:1> def initialize
> irb(main):013:2>   foo
> irb(main):014:2> end
> irb(main):015:1> private
> irb(main):016:1> def foo
> irb(main):017:2>   puts "hi"
> irb(main):018:2> end
> irb(main):019:1> end
> => nil
> irb(main):020:0> A.new
> hi
>
>
> - Brian
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jacob Wallström <jacob****@ghost*****>
> To: rubyc****@lists*****
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:53:30 AM
> Subject: [Rubycocoa-devel 791] Minor issue with self.privateMethod
>
> I discovered that the following won't work using Rubycocoa-unstable
> (revision 1600).
>
> class MyClass < OSX::NSObject
>
>     def publicMethod
>         self.privateMethod # gives error method not found
>         privateMethod        # works
>     end
>
>     private
>
>     def privateMethod
>     end
> end
>
> Since it is valid to call private methods in ruby using the self
> notation, I think it should work in RubyCocoa too.
>
> Best regards,
> Jacob Wallström
> http://ghostparksoftware.com
>
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