From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-12-11T01:39:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28100] Re: How does puts decide how to print a given object?

In article <200112101600.fBAG0Gn09633@moulon.inra.fr>, "ts"
<decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote:

>>>>>> "H" == Harry Ohlsen <harryo@zip.com.au> writes:
> 
> H> alias old_puts puts
> 
>  Apparently you like alias and self :-)

Not really.  Just don't know any better!

> 
>  Try this
> 
> 
>    def puts(x)
>       if x.type == Array
>          x.puts
>       else
>          super
>       end
>    end

So, does that mean that when we redefine a "global" method, calling super
automatically calls the one that existed before we defined it?  I didn't
expect this, because I wasn't defining a new class.

Or have I completely misunderstood ... not an unknown occurrence !!