Creation of public and private members of the class with the same name

May be you already know that ActionScript 3 allows you to create instance and static methods with the same name. I will show now to create public and private methods with the same name inside one class.
For example, you have a class with defined private method "test":

package {
      public class ExampleObject extends Object{
            public function ExampleObject(): void {
                  super ();
                  test();
            }
            protected function test(): void {
                  trace ( 'ExampleObject.test() - protected method' );
            }
      }
}

To create another, public method "test" in the same class you need to define it in specific namespace. So, define it:

package {
      public namespace simple_ns = '' ;
}

After that you can define method "test" in that namespace:

package {
      public class ExampleObject extends Object{
            public function ExampleObject(): void {
                  super ();
                  test();
            }
            simple_ns function test(): void {
                  trace ( 'ExampleObject.simple_ns::test() - public method' );
                  test();
            }
            protected function test(): void {
                  trace ( 'ExampleObject.test() - private method' );
            }
      }
}

Namespace with empty URI value used, because this is default namespace and you can access members in that namespace without specifying its.

trace ( ' --- creating instance --- ' );
var object:ExampleObject = new ExampleObject();
trace ( ' --- calling public method --- ' );
object.test();
 
/* trace output
 --- creating instance ---
ExampleObject.test() - private method
 --- calling public method ---
ExampleObject.simple_ns::test() - public method
ExampleObject . test () - private method
*/

In output you can see, that first called private test method, because it was called inside constructor, after that called public method simple_ns::test() with call of private method inside.