From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-04-06T01:01:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Redefining initialize while staying -w clean

On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> 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.

Remove the colons or swap alias with alias_method and add a comma.

James Edward Gray II