From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-04-06T01:30:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Redefining initialize while staying -w clean

On Apr 5, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> 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. :)

Can't you safely remove it once it has been renamed?

James Edward Gray II