Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5637] Ruby Book, Eng. tl, 5.2.4 -- shitauke methods ?"
    on 00/10/17, Jon Babcock <jon / kanji.com> writes:

|What is the accepted word for 'shitauke methods' in English?
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|下請けメソッド (shitauke) methods -> subcontracting methods ?

Well, my intention was to describe methods not to be called from
outside.  How about `internal' or `auxiliary'

							matz.