There is no technical way to prohibit someone from using a private method. You can write lots of code to try to restrict access but they can undo whatever you have written!
As cdarke posted, and I also mentioned in the Howto keep private methods private? thread, you can restrict access very efficiently, at compile time, to any lexical variable (including function refs, which can also be used as methods) by putting the variable in a limited scope. This should prevent anyone who isn't using XS internals hacking (like PadWalker) from getting at the method.

This strategy also has the advantage that it doesn't take up names in the inheritance tree, so you won't accidentally block out (or be blocked out) by sub or super classes. On the other hand that means you can't use it to create "protected" methods. But protected methods are the spawn of Satan, so you shouldn't care about that.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re^2: Hiding methods of class by Joost
in thread Hiding methods of class by isha

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