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[ruby-talk:01909] Re: super

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-16 17:07:39 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1909
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01897] super"
    on 00/03/16, "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.com> writes:

|Then I finally realized that super does NOT refer to the class above,
| but the method.  Is this the normal Smalltalk (yes you heard me)
| way, or is this a Ruby-ism?

In Smalltalk, super is the virtual instance of the superclass.

The behavior of Ruby's `super' is designed after CLOS's
call-next-method.

							matz.

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