From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2002-06-20T17:50:18+09:00
Subject: Re: can super call a method multiple classes higher in the hierarchy?

On Thu 20 Jun 2002 at 16:47:46 +0900, Juergen Katins wrote:

> "Ian Macdonald" <ian@caliban.org> schrieb :
> > Am I right in thinking that if I call super from method foo in class
> > Bar, it does not matter that no identically named method is defined in
> > Bar's parent class, just as long as an identically named method _is_
> > defined in the grandparent or an even further removed ancestor class
> > of Bar?
> >
> > It seems to work that way, but I don't remember reading that
> > explicitly in the pickaxe book.
> 
> Look at the paragraph atop of  this link:
> http://home.vr-web.de/juergen.katins/ruby/book/tut_classes.html#Message!send
> ing saying:
> "The answer has to do with the way Ruby determines which method should be
> called when ..."
> A similar problem is described there.

Thanks. I'd already read that section in the pickaxe book and, while
it came close to what I was looking for, it didn't convince me that
super wasn't a special case.

Ian
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