From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-04-06T01:20:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Redefining initialize while staying -w clean

On Apr 5, 10:06 am, Andrew Johnson <ajohn...@cpan.org> wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
>
> > That doesn't appear to work. Do you have a code snippet where it does
> > work? Perhaps I've missed something.
>
> Perhaps I've misunderstood your case -- the following runs -w clean on
> Ruby 1.8.6
>
>   $ cat init.rb
>
>   class String
>     alias :old_init :initialize
>     def initialize() end
>   end

Oh, I see. I had to remove the undef_method(:initialize) call with
this approach. Alright, this feels a bit clunky, but it will do the
job. The only thing I'm going to change is to making old_init
private. :)

Many thanks,

Dan