Robert Klemme wrote: > On 29.12.2006 01:42, atbusbook / aol.com wrote: > > Sorry blank post. but saying ruby has no encapsulation of methods is > > funny, it is pretty stupid if you ask me. > > Where exactly do you read that in the article? > I think he was referring to this (starts at the bottom of page 1 of the original article): "Popular dynamically typed languages such as Smalltalk, Self, Python, and Ruby still provide no encapsulation at all, or support it in a very limited way." and then later on page 3: "None of these languages provide any support for declaring internal methods that cannot be invoked from outside of the class in which they are defined." Jeff