From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T15:43:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Kernel#method objects that call super?

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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.

For what it's worth, this appears to work the correct way in 1.9 (always 
calling super with the same method) so either it was changed on purpose 
or it qualifies as a bug in 1.8.

I would request that it be fixed or modified in 1.8 as well.

- Charlie