Feature #14396: public, protected and private should return their arguments instead of self

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: 2.6

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

Matsuda-san suggested me that public, protected and private should return their arguments instead of self,
to write such code:

require "finalist"
# see https://github.com/joker1007/finalist

class Foo
  extend Finalist

  final private def foo
  end
end

I believe that it's reasonable request, and also believe that there is no product code which uses the return value of public, protected and private.
Matz, how about this change?
The patch is attached.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

誤ってruby-devに投げてしまったのでこっちは閉じます。
[Feature #14397] を参照。

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Is duplicate of Feature #14397: public, protected and private should return their arguments instead of self added