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It would be good to visibly make it clear whether a method is public/private/protected. Perhaps via an icon next to the def, or perhaps color shading in the editor/margin or something..
It's already there in the navigator (with a lock icon to show protected or private versus public). Leaving the enhancement open to track further improvements, perhaps in the editor pane itself.