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Issue #13026 has been updated by Shyouhei Urabe.

Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

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Feature #13026: Public singleton methods
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13026#change-62104

* Author: Daniel Ferreira
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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Abstract
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I would like to propose the implementation of:

```
Object#public_singleton_methods
```

`Object#public_singleton_methods` should return a list of public singleton methods.

Background
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Currently `Object#singleton_methods` returns a list of public and protected singleton methods.

Currently the best way I know of retrieving a list of public singleton methods is:

```
foo = Foo.new
foo.singleton_methods(false) & foo.public_methods(false)
```

I consider the definition of the public interface of any object very important.
For that reason I tend to keep it as simple as possible.

Also, the way I like to enforce the design is by using unit tests, testing the interface itself.
That way a change of the interface is very visible for the developer and code reviewer.

I also tend to use `protected` a lot to give private methods a higher level of relevance.

Implementation
---------------

This is a feature that I would be very interested in developing.
It would be my first contribution to ruby core.
If you understand that it is worth the effort I would be more than happy to do it.



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