From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-04-08T17:01:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Is possible to define various methods at same time?

2008/4/7, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>:
> El Lunes, 7 de Abril de 2008, Robert Klemme escribió:
>
>
>  > Can you explain why you need this?  Maybe there is a different
>  > solution altogether. This redundancy in method definitions is
>  > irritating to me and I suspect there might be a better way to achieve
>  > what you really need.
>
>
> Thanks a lot. Finally it was not so important for me as I thought initially,
>  so I can avoid using it. I asked that for the following reason:
>
>  I'm using CusomLogger class that inherits from Logger class. And I want to
>  modify some methods, all exactly the same:
>
>                 def debug(log_zone, msg)  super(formatter(log_zone, msg))  end
>                 def info(log_zone, msg)  super(formatter(log_zone, msg))  end
>                 def warn(log_zone, msg)  super(formatter(log_zone, msg))  end
>                 def error(log_zone, msg)  super(formatter(log_zone, msg))  end
>                 def fatal(log_zone, msg)  super(formatter(log_zone, msg))  end
>                 def unknown(log_zone, msg)  super(formatter(log_zone, msg))  end
>
>  As you can see, all the methods body is exactly the same. I expected there
>  could be a cool way to do something as:
>
>                 def debug,info,war,error,fatal,unknown(log_zone, msg)
>                         super(formatter(log_zone, msg))
>                  end
>
>  just it.

I agree to Gennady: delegation might be a better choice over inheritance here.

Kind regards

robert

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