role Metamodel::PrivateMethodContainer { ... }

In Raku, 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