From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-04-13T11:16:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for a new shorthand

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Alan Black" <dblack@candle.superlink.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: Idea for a new shorthand


> I've always thought of super as a Y-axis thing, and alias as an X-axis
> thing.  I'm not sure whether they can be combined into one thing,
> without some loss.  Here's a rather contrived example:

You're absolutley right, David...

I failed to make myself clear.

The reference to super was unrelated; its only purpose
was to explain the motivation for prior.

I was not proposing replacing super at all.

Cheers,
Hal