From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-24T01:30:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6555] Re: alias_method and > and <

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6525] Re: alias_method and > and <"
    on 00/11/23, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

|>   class Fixnum
|>     alias :old_lt :<
|>     def <(other)
|>      puts "comparing"
|>      old_lt(other)
|>     end
|>   end
|
|OK, but how do I do that in a module?  alias doesn't work there either.
|I'm trying to write this once (DRY and all that) and then include it
|in the classes where I need it.

Use two methods of Module:

 append_feature
 alias_method

Currently I'm off.  I should be off. ;-)
I don't explain it in detail, sorry.

							matz.