From: Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...>
Date: 2006-04-16T22:41:15+09:00
Subject: Re: re-defining an initialize method

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2006/4/16, Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@gmail.com>:

> hi all,
> while editing a class, i caught myself doing this:
>
> class Foobar
> alias initialize old_initialize
> def initialize
>    old_initialize
>    # code
> end
> end
>
> and it doesn't look nice to me, is this really horrible in any way? or is
> it
> something i should use, whenever needed?
> greetings, Dirk.


i'm sorry, of course it should have been this:

alias old_initialize initialize

greetings, Dirk.

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