From: Philip Mateescu <philip@...>
Date: 2002-06-05T07:40:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling a (any) superclass method when already have one by that name

Wrong ? Nothing, I just wanted another way...

From a personal point of view, aliasing, while I see it's a great technique,
it somehow seem to me it dimishes the dynamicality of code. I mean you have
to alias all the methods you wanna use from the superclass (and which are
overridden in the current class)...

thanks a lot,
philip

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Konz" <ned@bike-nomad.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 05 June, 2002 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: Calling a (any) superclass method when already have one by that
name


On Tuesday 04 June 2002 02:37 pm, Philip Mateescu wrote:

> So, how do I call a method of my superclass when I have a method
> with the same name in my current class (i.e. is there any other way
> beside aliasing) ?

What's wrong with aliasing?

class A
  def foo
    puts "A::foo"
  end
end

class B < A
  alias :aFoo :foo # refer to A::foo
  def foo
    puts "B::foo"
    aFoo
  end
end

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