From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-07-07T06:29:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Kernel#method objects that call super?

On 7/6/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> This seems very wrong to me. Calling through a method object should
> behave the same for super as calling directly or calling through an alias:
>
>
> class Foo
>    def a; puts 'Foo a'; end
>    def b; puts 'Foo b'; end
> end
>
> class Bar < Foo
>    def a; puts 'Bar a'; super; end
>    alias b a
> end
>
> Bar.new.a # => "Bar a\nFoo a"
> Bar.new.b # => "Bar a\nFoo a"
> Bar.new.method(:b).call # => "Bar a\nFoo b"
>
>
> It seems incorrect for method objects to change the behavior of super.
> If I super in 'a', I want super's 'a' to be called, without exception.
>
> Can someone confirm this is a bug? In JRuby we always super up the
> same-named chain, so this represents an incompatibility.
>

Please please please let this be a bug.