From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T00:54:52+09:00
Subject: Re: how to well-qualify the 2-inherited methods at their collision point

On 9/11/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>    def greeting
>      puts "greetings: #{@msg}. this is BaseModule."
>      super if defined?(super)  # ==> will call greeting in Baseclass
>    end

I'm not sure about that conditional... wouldn't that call super (with
a possible exception) then check whether the result is "defined?" ? Or
is "defined?" a special case keyword that does lazy evaluation on it's
argument?

> But if this is not your intent then there a "simple" way using Nano
> Methods:
> 
>  require 'nano/object/superup'
> 
>  class SubClass < BaseClass
>    include BaseModule
>    def greeting
>      super
>      superup(BaseClass).greeting
>    end
>  end
> 
> Note that I may be changing the name of this method to 'superfunc' in
> the next release (b/c it works via a Functor). Deciding on a good name
> for this method has been bothersome. If anyone has a better idea let me
> know.

Very nice, I like that functionality. Don't know if I like the name,
but you already expressed your reservations on the name, and I don't
have any better suggestions, so I'll just shut up. :)

Jacob Fugal