Public / Private methods or functions?

Is there a way to make public or private methods or functions in types?

To explain further

I'm making a type to use across different project. There are some functions/methods included in the type that are not to be called from outside the type, so i'm looking for a way t make them Private to the type, and eventually hope an IDE like Blide (which is sweet) wouldnt show these functions/methods when someone's using the type

Look in the help for Public and Private

No.

...but there really should be.

Should be, but there aren't, despite the past requests.

At the moment, public - private are "pointless" ... they don't do anything to the compiled module ... the only thing private does is prevent that an entry for this method / function / field / local / global is added to the Interface (.i) file. So if you need a private method, feel free to do it by simply removing the entries from the .i files ...

I'd like this too. All I've heard suggested is stick _ on the start of the private fields and function names so they look differnt :-(

Interface files aren't generated for code that isn't in a module.

You are right, private removes it from module usable part completely.

But still: removing its entry from .i will take care that others can't use it unless the know the exact naming etc to reconstruct the line ...