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")
println u.name

Solution

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

There are further details in groovy call private method in Java super class

Comments

[tim_yates]

see stackoverflow.com/questions/3819794/…

[ripper234]

@James - try it, it compiles without errors.

[dnim]

Groovy generates gettes/setters for private fields and if you try hit the private field like u.name Groovy invokes u.getName(){this.name} generated or declared method for it. So this behavior looks fine for me. Anyway Groovy has a lot of the issues with privacy ;)