From: Thomas Mueller <thomasmueller76@...>
Date: 2008-03-06T11:58:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance with Ruby

I recently wanted to add a few methods to existing classes and just
extended Object. Not sure if that would help.
You could maybe override Object.initialize, but I'm not so sure
whether that would be a smart idea...

2008/3/6, Chirag Patel <patelc75@yahoo.com>:
> I would like to create a new superclass 'Super' for an existing class
>  'Sub'
>
>  class Sub
>   def new
>      #do something second
>   end
>  end
>
>  class Super < Sub
>   def new
>      #do something first
>   end
>  end
>
>  Is it possible create this new Super class so that Super::new is called
>  every time Sub:new is called without modifying Sub?
>
>  The is because Sub already exists and I don't want to tamper the code.
>  Basically I have a bunch of existing classes that I want to inherit from
>  'Super' so that I can include some error handling in 'Super'. Is there
>  another better way to accomplish this without modifying the existing
>  subclasses?
>
>  Thanks!
>  Chirag
>
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>
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