From: Aleksei Guzev Date: 2001-07-20T14:49:56+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:18174] Re: Enabling "super" # # They do the same thing, in this case. In a C extension you # don't really need to call rb_enable_super() (i.e. I can # write the code in another way, probably worst, but that's # another story :-)) # They do not the same, because alias pollutes the namespace, and calling super should perform much much faster.