role Metamodel::PrivateMethodContainer { ... }

In Perl 6, classes, roles and grammars can have private methods, that is, methods that are only callable from within the class, and are not inherited by types derived by inheritance.

class A {
    # the ! declares a private method 
    method !double($x) {
        say 2 * $x;
    }
    method call-double($y) {
        # call with ! instead of . 
        self!double($y);
    }
}

For the purposes of dispatching and scoping, private methods are closer to subroutines than to methods. However they share access to self and attributes with methods.

Methods

method add_private_method

method add_private_method(Metamodel::PrivateMethodContainer: $obj, $name, $code)

Adds a private method $code with name $name.

method private_method_table

method private_method_table(Metamodel::PrivateMethodContainer: $obj)

Returns a hash of name => &method_object

Type Graph