From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2004-05-28T14:52:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling global method

Hi,

> On Thursday 27 May 2004 16:37, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> > How do you call a global method from a module method where there is another
> > module method that shares the name of the global method?
> 
> Perhaps that was too cryptic.  Here's an example:
> 
> def test
>   p "in first test"
> end
> 
> module somemodule
>   def somemodule::somemethod
>     test()
>   end
> 
>   def somemodule::test
>     p "in somemodule::test"
>   end
> end
>
> In somemodule::somemethod, I intended to call the global test method, but I 
> ended up calling somemodule::test.

Not super pretty, but I'm currently using:

  def somemodule::somemethod
    Kernel.instance_eval { test() }
  end


Regards,

Bill