From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-04-25T20:52:13+09:00
Subject: Re: "alias name objetc.method" not allowed?

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Hi --

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo wrote:

> Hi, I've a method that returns an object:
>
>  def object
>    return @object
>  end
>
> That  @object is a object of class MyObject containing methods:
>
>  class MyObject
>    def hello
>      "helloooooooo"
>    end
>  end
>
> And I'd like to do:
>
>  def object
>    return @object
>  end
>
>  alias ob_hello object.hello
>
> but it's not allowed, that a pity:
>  unexpected '.'
>
> So, is not possible to create an alias to a method of a method/object?

I think you want:

def ob_hello
   object.hello
end


David

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