From: Philip Mateescu <philip@...>
Date: 2002-06-04T03:37:07+09:00
Subject: super bug or (most likely) I am doing something wrong ?

Hi,

I can't seem to get it right with a super (newbie stuff :)).
I expect the following program :
-------------------------------
class Boo
 def say_what
  puts "boo what ?"
 end
end
#
a = Boo.new
a.say_what
#
class Foo < Boo
 def say_what
  super.say_what
  puts "FOO this!"
 end
end
#
b = Foo.new
b.say_what
-------------------------------
to output
boo what?
boo what?
FOO this!

Instead I get :
-------------------------------
boo what ?

-------------------------------
on ruby 1.7.2 (2002-03-29) [i686-cygwin]

and
-------------------------------
boo what ?
boo what ?
class_object_vars.rb:12:in `say_what': undefined method `say_what' for nil
(NoMethodError)
    from class_object_vars.rb:18
-------------------------------
on ruby 1.7.2 (2002-03-20) [i386-mswin32]

class_object_vars.rb:12: being the super.say_what line...

Could someone please clear me out why is this happening ?

Thanks,
philip