From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-11-17T16:22:18+09:00
Subject: Yet Another Rite Thought: method combination

I just looked at matz' slides and I don't have a clear understanding
of ho9w this is suposed to work.

Possibly this has been explained verbosely, But I can't get it from
the slide.

So, this is the example:

class Foo
 def foo(*args)       #1
   p 'foo'
 end
 def foo:pre (*args ) #2
  p 'pre'
 end
 def foo:post (*args) #3
  p 'post'
 end
 def foo:wrap (*args) #4
  p 'wrap pre'
  super
  p 'wrap post'
 end
end

now: what are pre post and wrap?

Are this just generic (casual) names for the wrapping functions? (so
we could have def foo:bar)

Are they wrapping idioms ? 
 if true
  what do they are for? Do the work as in :
   pre called before the method
   post called after the method
   wrap could call super and get the old method
   I suppose pre and post are actually useless this way, cause they
   can be emulated with foo:wrap() 
  or do the work as
   pre wraps the original method
   post wraps the latest wrapping of the method
   wrap ... ?
 

someone would please explain this to me ?