From: Hiroharu Sugawara <sugawah@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T09:04:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Overriding methods in inherited classes


Travis, 

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 03:07:07 +0900 Travis Whitton <whitton@atlantic.net> wrote:

> Following my long withstanding tradition of following up my own posts, I
> believe I have a solution. Does anybody see any problem with doing the
> following?
> 
> require 'cgi'
> 
> class SCGI < CGI
>   module QueryExtension
>     def [](*args)
>       if @params[*args]
>         return @params[*args][0]
>       end
>     end
>   end

Another possible solution:

  def [](key); @params[key].to_s; end


I'm not sure about the behavior of cgi.[] method, though
we cannot predict the class of return object anyway in Ruby.


-- susu