From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T07:06:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Mommy, where do methods come from?

From: "Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com>


> 
> Finally (and I'm sure I should know this one already), how would I call
> Object#to_s on foo if I have already redefined to_s?  (Is this even
> possible?)
> 


class Base
  def foo
    15
  end
end


Now we want to access Base#foo in derived even though it's overwritten.


class Derived
  alias_method :old_foo, :foo

  def foo
    -72
  end

  def bar
    old_foo
  end
end



I don't think it's a very nice way to do it, but then I've never needed to.

Gavin