From: Leslie Viljoen <leslie@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T16:52:21+09:00
Subject: Trying to alias for/foreach

Hello

I am new to Ruby, but enjoying it incredibly. I'd like to ask some advice:
I noticed that IO has a "foreach" iterator while Array's, etc. mostly call
their per-item iterators "each". I thought I could get rid of this
inconsistency
like this:

class MyIO<IO
 
  alias :each :foreach
  #error:
  #: undefined method `foreach' for class `MyIO' (NameError)

end

Why doesn't it work?

Les

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