From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-11-23T04:09:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6524] Re: alias_method and > and <

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

> The operators > and < don't seem to be in the list of things one cannot
> override.  So therefore I should be able to override them.  Indeed, 
> I can do 
>     def >(x)
>        # ...
>     end
> 
> but I cannot get at the old versions.

  class Fixnum
    alias :old_lt :<
    def <(other)
     puts "comparing"
     old_lt(other)
    end
  end



Regards


Dave