From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T14:54:13+09:00
Subject: Re: super with block

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Lou Zell <lzell11@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This worked for me:
>>
>> irb(main):023:0> class NString < String
>> irb(main):024:1>  def gsub!(*args, &blk)
>> irb(main):025:2>  super(*args, &blk)
>> irb(main):026:2> end
>> irb(main):027:1> end
>> => nil
>> irb(main):028:0> s = NString.new("hi")
>> => "hi"
>> irb(main):029:0>  s.gsub!(/(hi)/){$1}
>> => "hi"
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Jesus.
>
>
> Hi Jesus, thank you for your response.  Unfortunately, I could not
> replicate your results:

Sorry, it seems that my $1 was set by previous tests in IRB :-(
The others are right and the discussion has been interesting.
It also shows you have to be careful with tests in IRB...

Jesus.