From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-17T02:07:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01909] Re: super

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.