hacks/secret

A hack to allow "secret" methods that can only be called by the class that created them, and will issue warnings when "secret" methods are overridden in derived classes.

A secret method is also private, but does not show up in the list of private methods.

TODO: This example is rather long.

E.g.:

  class Foo
  secret
    def foo
      puts "you should not see this message (foo)"
    end
    puts "You should see a warning:"
    def foo
    end
    def self.foo2
      puts "you should not see this message (foo2)"
    end
  private
    def this_is_a_private_function
    end
  secret
    def this_is_another_private_function
    end
    private :this_is_another_private_function
  end
  class Bar < Foo
    def bar
      foo
    end
    def bar2
      Foo::foo2
    end
    puts "You should see a warning:"
    def foo
    end
  end
  b = Bar.new
  exception = false
  begin
    b.bar2
  rescue NameError
    exception = true
  end
  begin
    b.bar
  rescue NameError
    exception = true
  end

class Module < Object

Public Methods

secret(*symbols)

Make the default access level secret when called without arguments, or make a set of symbols secret if called with arguments.

symbols	the list of symbols to make secret.

class Object < Object

Requires