From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-17T05:22:16+09:00
Subject: Re: alias_method problem

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Tuckner" <STUCKNER@MULTITECH.COM>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:09 PM
Subject: RE: alias_method problem


> I too have run in to this and implemented an ugly kludge to deal with it
> (instead of taking the time to figure it out).
> 
> class A
>    $aliased = $aliased || 0
> 
>    if $aliased == 0 then
>       #  method "newone" is defined in a different file.
>       alias_method :oldone, :newone
>       def newone
>          oldone
>       end
>    end
>    $aliased += 1
> end

Hmmmm... I haven't tested this, but here's a
thought:

Could you test the value of "defined? oldone"
rather than resorting to a global variable?
Still a kludge, but maybe less so...

Hal