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For the record, the thing you ended up with is pretty close to what you end up using in Clojure: We use `defn-` for private functions and `defn` for public ones.

"Fortunately, there are no new Oberon programmers, so this is not a problem in practice." What about me!

regarding C++... ruby does this too, in a wild way. `private` is just a method that toggles a visibility bit. it's not *global* exactly, but it's still just setting a wider state thing that makes method definitions afterwards private