From: David Colque <d_colque@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T05:19:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Access to method in superclass

Thomas B. wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> It's a gotcha in Ruby - there's NO WAY to access ancestor's method 
> setSpeed from your own method accelerate. As you see, the word super 
> itself is a call to ancestor's method of the same name as the method you 
> are currently in. And there's no other use of super, so you cannot call 
> ancestor's (overridden) method of a different name than the method 
> you're actually in.
> 
> AFAIK they say that you shouldn't need to. If you do, you can refactor 
> your code and it will be a good thing to do.
> 
> TPR.

Thank you very much. Then continuous learning …
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