On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 05:18:14AM +0900, dblack / candle.superlink.net wrote:
> I think the privacy is gate-kept separately by each object's singleton
> class:

Oh, good point.

This discussion inspired me to go rewrite some code I wrote the day I
started learning Ruby.  I decided to use instance_eval to call the
private initialize_with_xxx methods.  Do you think that's a reasonable
alternative?

Paul