From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-01-17T05:21:36+09:00
Subject: Re: overriding Object::send

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> Why doesn't this work?
>
> class Object
>  alias_method :old_send, :send
>  def send meth, *args
>    STDERR.puts "#{ meth } was called"
>    old_send meth, args
>  end
> end
>
>

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   class Object
    def send meth, *a, &b
      STDERR.puts "#{ self.class }##{ meth }"
     __send__ meth, *a, &b
    end
   end

   42.send "display"


   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   Fixnum#display
   42

hth.

-a
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