In Scala, can internal methods be overwritten in subclasses?

Question

For example in the following

class Base {

  def test() {
    def internal() {
      println("base internal")
    }
  }
}

Is it possible for internal to be overwritten in a subclass?

Answer 1

No. Internal methods are effectively private.

Answer 2

To complete the answer of Daniel: if you want to be able to override the internal method, you should declare it as protected directly below the Base class.

In fact, internal method can be seen as a block of the method itself.