From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-04-06T01:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Redefining initialize while staying -w clean

On Apr 5, 10:30 am, James Edward Gray II <j...@grayproductions.net>
wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Daniel Berger wrote:
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> > On Apr 5, 10:06 am, Andrew Johnson <ajohn...@cpan.org> wrote:
> >> Daniel Berger wrote:
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> >>> That doesn't appear to work. Do you have a code snippet where it  
> >>> does
> >>> work? Perhaps I've missed something.
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> >> Perhaps I've misunderstood your case -- the following runs -w  
> >> clean on
> >> Ruby 1.8.6
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> >>   $ cat init.rb
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> >>   class String
> >>     alias :old_init :initialize
> >>     def initialize() end
> >>   end
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> > 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. :)
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> Can't you safely remove it once it has been renamed?

Looks that way. This ran -w clean for me:

class String
   alias old_init initialize
   def initialize
      puts "hello"
   end
   remove_method(:old_init)
end

Regards,

Dan