From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-04-12T16:09:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for a new shorthand

Hi,

In message "Idea for a new shorthand"
    on 02/04/12, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|Do you see where I'm going? I propose a special
|name "prior" that will automatically refer to the 
|prior definition of any method that is being replaced.
|No aliases will be necessary.
|
|    def system_method
|      if today == Sunday
|        # Do some stuff...
|      end
|      prior
|    end
|
|What do you think?

I know the problem you want to solve.  I'm considering something like
CLOS's method combination, or Emacs's defadvice for the matter.

							matz.