From: jvivenot <jvivenot@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T06:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Initialize and superclass

Wonderful !
Thanks.

I think there will be many days during which I'll stay a Ruby-Nuby....

Bye, and thanks everyone

Julien Vivenot

Eero Saynatkari wrote:
> Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
> > jvivenot [2006-08-21 01:35]:
> >> Lets say I have two classes A and B, where A is B's superclass. B's
> >> initialize method initialize her own variables, but how could I do in
> >> order to run A.initialize before B.initialize when I write B.new ?
> >
> > If I understood your problem correctly, you're after the "super" method.
> > Try the following code:
> >
> > <snip />
>
> And in the event that you some arguments to B that
> A does not know how to handle, use the second form:
>
>  class A
>    def initialize(foo)
>      puts "initializing instance of A with #{foo}"
>    end
>  end
>
>  class B
>    def initialize(foo, bar)
>      super(foo)
>      puts "initializing instance of B with #{foo} and #{bar}"
>    end
>  end
>
> > Regards,
> > Tilman
> 
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