Carl Mäsak wrote: > <masak> um, so 'protected' is when the deriving classes can see the attribute? > <jonalv> yup > <masak> that's what 'private' means in Perl 6.
That's wrong. Perl 6's "private" is like Java's "private" - subclasses can't see it. It's just Rakudo being leaky at the moment, not a fallacy of the Perl 6 language. (Yes, we have failing tests for this; no, we don't run them at the moment). Moritz