From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-07-22T10:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby gnome question

Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> What the.
> 
> Is that the principle of Matz's least surprise coming up again?  Cuz
> it sure didn't meet JVD's principle of least surprise.

Congratulations, you get to retrain your neural net. :)

There are good reasons for the distinction here. Frequently (I might
dare to say: most often) you want to pass the same args on to the
parent's method.

But sometimes you need more control. In fact, there is no guarantee
that the two methods will even have the same arity.

So you get to pass whatever you want. If what you pass is "nothing"
then this is a special case -- you have to surround the "nothing"
with parentheses: super()

Hope that clarifies a little.


Hal