Bug #7675: main.protected is not defined

• Status: Rejected
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: 2.0.0
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0dev (2013-01-07 trunk 38731) [i686-linux]

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

main (self at toplevel) has public and private, but doesn't have protected.

public
private
protected #=> NoMethodError

It looks a bit weird.

I guess it was forgotten to add main.protected when Module#protected was introduced
in Ruby 1.1b9_05.
main.protected seems not to be useful because it makes methods of Object protected, but
it might be good to have main.protected for consistency.

[kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI)]

Target version: 2.0.0

2.0?

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI) wrote:

Target version: 2.0.0

2.0?

I considered it a bug, but if Matz consider it a new feature, feel free to move it to next minor or to reject it simply.

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

I am not positive to add it.
There's no reason to add protected except for consistency, since it behaves just like public.

Matz.

[shugo (Shugo Maeda)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:

I am not positive to add it.
There's no reason to add protected except for consistency, since it behaves just like public.

OK, so I close this ticket.