From: Michael Perle <michael_perle@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T23:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing base method...

> Stefano Crocco wrote:
> 
>>If you want to be able to call a base class's method after having 
>>overriden it, you should use alias_method. 

Soso Soso wrote (and Michael corrected the quoting):
> Thanks Stefano, it works. But it puzzles me (coming from a C++/Java
> background) why isn't there a more direct way to access an overriden
> base class method. hmmm... >

How do you do this in Java then?

Are you sure that you really want to overwrite
it and then use the parent one? Why did you
overwrite it then?

class Parent
   def knox
     puts 'parent'
   end
end

class Child < Parent
   def knox
     puts 'child'
   end
   def test
     Parent.new.knox
   end
end

But do not think that it contributes to the readability of
the application to have 2 methods with the same name that
do two different things at all. So perhaps I would go for:

class Parent
    def knox_parent
      puts 'parent'
    end
end

class Child < Parent
   def knox_child
     puts 'child'
   end
   def test
     knox_parent()
   end
end

MP