From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-05-15T10:44:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15130] Re: How do I alias a class method?

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> There should be no visible efficiency difference. I still always use the
> reserved keyword "alias", but I'd also agree if it was planned to remove
> it in a future version. The reason is consistency. Some of us also think
> that this:
>
> class A < B
> 	blah
> end
>
> should change to:
>
> A = Class.new(B) {
> 	blah
> }
>
> and similar things.

But then, again to be consistent, wouldn't that mean changing this:

  class A
  ...
  end

to this:

  A = class.new {
  ...
  }


David

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