From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-09T01:23:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [CHALLENGE] better alias_method

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Marshall T. Vandegrift wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov writes:
>
>> even more distilled:
>>
>>     harp:~ > cat a.rb
>>     class C
>>       def m() '' end
>>
>>       include Module.new{ def m() 'a' end }
>>     end
>>
>>     p C.new.m
>>
>>
>>     harp:~ > ruby a.rb
>>     ""
>>
>>
>> i find that behviour quite suprising... in fact, it seems like a bug, but i'm
>> probably wrong...  thoughts?
>
> Module inclusion is inheritance, so far as method look-up goes, right?:

<snip>

indeed.  hadn't consider it that way.

thanks.


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