From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-09T08:15:51+09:00
Subject: Re: how to aliase a module method?

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 dseiler@etceteraedutainment.com wrote:

> On Mar 8, 5:34 am, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to aliase a module method to some local alias (to ease
>> some template). I've tried a few variations of
>>
>>    alias escape_latex MyUtils.escape_latex
>>
>> without luck so far. I could mixin the module or write a wrapper, but
>> I'd like to know how to accomplish that with alias, or that it is not
>> possible if that's the case.
>
> It's possible, sort of.  Try
>
> module TheModule
>  instance_eval "alias escape_latex MyUtils.escape_latex"
> end
>
> I use a similar technique (originally suggested by Minero Aoki,
> according to my notes) to replace Thread.critical and
> Thread.critical=.  I've only tested it in 1.8.2 but I don't think
> anything's broken it since then.
>
>> -- fxn

module M
   class << self
     alias_method 'dst', 'src'
   end
end

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