From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T04:25:10+09:00
Subject: Devious or what? : hacking super : should this work?

I've discovered that an unadorned call to "super" need *not* call the
parent method with the same arguments!!!  If you bind the entire
argument list to a variable you can modify the list before calling
"super".  Check it out:

    class Show
      def initialize(*args)
	puts args.inspect
      end
    end

    Show.new(1,34,"asd")

    class Show2 < Show
      def initialize(*args)
	puts args.shift
	super
      end
    end

    Show2.new(1,34,"asd")

===> 

    [1, 34, "asd"]
    1
    [34, "asd"]

So "args" is bound to the *actual* array of arguments, not just a
copy.  Is this a bug or a feature?  Might this behaviour change in
future?

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty