If you're following me on Twitter, you'll know by now how I feel about the private access modifier.
My rage culminated this morning when, after spending the last three days working around bugs in a binary library, I came across a particularly nasty one. In a private method. That I couldn't work around.
Stupid private methods.
Anyway, I finally broke down and learned ABC, the Actionscript Byte Code format, and "fixed" the stupid method. If you're interested, you can read my post detailing how I did it.