On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 9:51:11 PM, Lothar wrote: gr>> Btw, I hope matz will accept RCR 277 soon gr>> http://rcrchive.net/rcr/show/277 > Again you get a "no" from me about RCR 277. > I can't see any real value of your notation, it just makes the use of > public even more unclear. What on earth can be considered unclear about public def foo ... end ? > I would instead vote for not even allow "public" to be state > sensitive. It's not state-sensitive; it just has a default behaviour and a specific (i.e. when given an argument) behaviour. Gavin