What does 'private' mean in Groovy?

Question

The following code sets a private method. So how private really is private?

public class Person {
 private String name
}

def u = new Person(name:\"Ron\")
pr         


        

Answer 1

By design Groovy should respect the private modifier, however the current implementation takes no account of it.

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