Issue #19749 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze). @jeremyevans0 That does not explain why the original example defines the method as public (note I edited the description on Redmine, it was not asking the right question).
will only consider current default scope visibility to determine visibility:
And that visibility is private at the top-level. So why is the method defined as public on CRuby? ---------------------------------------- Bug #19749: Confirm correct behaviour when attaching private method with `#define_method` https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19749#change-103703 * Author: itarato (Peter Arato) * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: 3.3.0 * Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- This issue is a special case of https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19745: Should dynamically added private methods via `.singleton_class.send(:define_method,...` at the top-level be accessible publicly? See the following example: ```ruby def bar; end foo = Object.new foo.singleton_class.send(:define_method, :bar, method(:bar)) foo.bar # No error. ``` The script above runs fine on latest Ruby 3.3. Is this correct to ignore the fact that the visibility in the caller context is the default top-level private visibility? This came up during a TruffleRuby investigation (https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/issues/3134) where the result for the same script is: `private method 'bar' called for #<Object:0xc8> (NoMethodError)` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/