From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-09-07T23:42:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20982] Re: calling original method in overrided method?

Piers Cawley <pdcawley@iterative-software.com> writes:

> Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com> writes:
> 
> > I don't like the default behavior of String#to_i and String#to_f to return
> > zero for any string that contains no recognizable numbers. I had thought to
> > write overriding methods like so:
> > 
> > Class String
> > 	def to_i
> > 		fail "#{self} is not a valid integer" unless self =~ /^\d*$/
> 
> Note that this will only find you positive integers. Maybe you mean 
>    
>     self =~ /^[-+]?\d*$/
> 
> > 		# call original to_i
> > 	end
> > end
> > 
> > ...but I don't how (if it is possible?) to call the original to_i.
> > Am I stuck with using a new method name or a custom string class?
> 
> Frankly I'd hope that 'super' would do the job, but it seems from the
> rest of the thread that it doesn't...

And then I realised how stupid I was being... We return you now to
your scheduled wisdom and insight, untroubled by the stupidity
inherent in my post above.

-- 
Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com