From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-02-08T03:23:19+09:00
Subject: Re: catching super() with method_missing

Hi,

In message "catching super() with method_missing"
    on 03/02/08, Brad Hilton <bhilton@vpop.net> writes:

|I was recently surprised to find that I can't do:
|
|class Outer
|	def method_missing(methID, *args, &block)
|		p methID.id2name
|	end
|end
|
|class Inner < Outer
|	def foo
|		super
|	end
|end
|
|obj = Inner.new
|obj.foo
|
|It raises: "super: no superclass method `foo' (NameError)"
|
|Is this behavior intentional?  Why should super() assume that we won't
|catch the undefined method with method_missing?

No, I couldn't think of a case like this.  It will be fixed.
Thank you.

							matz.