From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T03:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlled block variables

>>>>> "T" == T Onoma <transami@runbox.com> writes:

T>   class A
T>     def dolittle
T>       print "duck"
T>     end
T>     def dolittle:hook   # where's the super? what do i do?
T>       print "rabbit"
T>     end
T>   end

 only print "rabbit"

T> A little bigger

T>   class A
T>     def dolittle
T>       print "duck"
T>     end
T>     def dolittle:hook
T>       super
T>       print "rabbit"
T>     end
T>   end

T>   class B < A
T>     def dolittle:hook   # am i replacing old hook? (there's no local dolittle)
T>       super               # or am i supering to old hook?
T>       print "fox"
T>     end
T>   end

 print "duckrabbitfox"


T> Much bigger problem: a library the i don't know how it works, i'm just using 
T> it:

 Don't modify library that you don't know

T> But the worst problem of all is simply that not allowing multiple wraps, so 
T> severely limits the capabilities of this mechinism that it would actually 
T> have no general use whatsoever.

 You must have a mechanism to change the ordering in this case (see
 Allegro) and [ruby-talk:86170]


Guy Decoux