Private classes

Hi, for some reason I was under the impression that if I don’t export the methods of a class, then no user of my module can create instances. But I was wrong and in fact they can; the methods will just all be bound to "error ...". Is there really no way to create a class so that no-one else can create any instances? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0x4743206C Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org