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Bug #13249

Updated by abotalov (Andrei Botalov) over 7 years ago

Simple example: 

 ~~~ ruby 
 class C 
   def self.foo 
     private 
     def bar 
     end 
   end 
 end 
 C.foo 
 C.new.bar 
 ~~~ 

 This code runs fine on Ruby 2.3 and Ruby 2.4. It raises NoMethodError on Ruby 2.2 and prior versions. 
 I would expect an error to be raised. 

 Here is some code that actually uses private access modifier inside a class method - https://github.com/evolve75/RubyTree/blob/db48c35b0a3b96e4da473b095cc00e454d8a9996/lib/tree/utils/camel_case_method_handler.rb#L60 

 By the way, this code raises an error as expected on Ruby 2.3 and Ruby 2.4: 

 ~~~ ruby 
 class C 
   def self.foo 
     private def bar 
     end 
   end 
 end 
 C.foo 
 C.new.bar # NoMethodError: private method `bar' called 
 ~~~ 

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