From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-02-24T21:44:05+09:00
Subject: Re: duplicate method name

Hi --

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

> Hi Ron.
>
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:57:41 -0500,
> Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@REMOVEacm.org> wrote:
> > I just found a case in a test file where i had two tests of the same
> > name. obviously one of them overrode the other and so the first test was
> > "lost".
> >
> > Is there a famous and cool way to avoid this defect?
>
> this is not a defect, it is a feature.
>
> you could do the LaTeX thingy (\newcommand vs. \def)
> and define a method which checks if the current class
> already has the method and then issue a warning or whatever.

Ruby already does that for you, if you run under '-w':

$ ruby -we 'class X; def x;end; def x;end; end'
-e:1: warning: discarding old x


David

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