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3np on Dec 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby's private keyword is weird

> So far, I’m only aware of Ruby’s private modifier and Scala’s protected[this] which behave like this. If you know of any other languages, please email me! I’d love to hear about them.

Rerouting throgh comments: Event if it's very different, TypeScript's private has quite surprising semantics as well...

tubthumper8 on Dec 17, 2023 [–]

TypeScript's `private` keyword is like the Pirate's Code:

> More like _guidelines_, than actual rules

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