Private method in groovy is not private

Question

class A {
    private def sayHello() {
       println \"Anish\"
    } 
 }

 def a_obj = new A()
 a_obj.sayHello()

output : Anish

Answer 1

I think its a bug in groovy that is fixed in groovy++.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-1875