[ruby-core:50824] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5005][Rejected] Provide convenient access to original methods

Issue #5005 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).

Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

Use Module#prepend and super.
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Feature #5005: Provide convenient access to original methods
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5005#change-34662

Author: lazaridis.com (Lazaridis Ilias)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: 
Target version: next minor


The languag allows a class to be "reopened", thus it's behaviour can be redefined:

class String
  def any_method
    #custom code
  end
end

the original method can be called, using this construct:

class String
  alias_method :original_any_method, :any_method
  def any_method(*args)
    #custom code
    original_any_method(*args)
    #custom code
  end
end

In order to make this more convenient, the following construct could be provided:

class String
  def any_method(*args)
    #custom code
    original # call the original String#any_method, passing *args (similar to "super")
    #custom code
  end
end

 "original" would behave similar to "super"

The term "original" can be replaced by any term which describes this concept better.






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