From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-04-06T00:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Redefining initialize while staying -w clean

On Apr 5, 9:47 am, Andrew Johnson <ajohn...@cpan.org> wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > Is it possible to redefine initialize and stay -w clean? In win32-file-
> > stat, I've redefined initialize to suit my needs for MS Windows.
>
> > If I do "undef_method(:initialize)" and run with -w, I'll get:
>
> > "warning: undefining `initialize' may cause serious problem".
>
> > However, if don't do that, I get "warning: method redefined;
> > discarding old initialize".
>
> Try aliasing the method before redefining it:
>
>   alias :old_init :initialize
>   def initialize() end

That doesn't appear to work. Do you have a code snippet where it does
work? Perhaps I've missed something.

Thanks,

Dan