From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-04-08T02:37:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby wish-list



On Apr 7, 1:01 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I wanted something "intuitive",
>
> >   /*
> >   I'd probably prefer something like this,
> >   */
>
> Yeah that'd be sweet.
>
> I believe this next wish has been mentioned before, but...
> I wish you could call functions with the same name from arbitrary
> ancestor classes.
>
> class A
>  def run
>  print 'A'
>  end
> end
> class B < A
>  def run
>  print 'B'
>  end
> end
>
> test = B.new
> test.run # prints B
> test.class.run_as(A).run # prints 'A'

See Facets Kernel#as.

  http://facets.rubyforge.org

T.