From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-12-07T01:07:29+09:00
Subject: Re: mixins and extend (was: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....)

Take a look at this:

    class MC
      def happy; print "C"; super if defined?(super); end
    end

    module M
      def happy; print "M"; super if defined?(super); end
    end

    class S < MC
      include M
      def happy; print "x"; super if defined?(super); end
    end

    s = S.new

    print "superclass: "; s.happy
    print "\t", class << s; self; end.ancestors.inspect; puts

Outputs:

    superclass: xM  [S, M, MC, Object, Kernel]

Now look at this:

    class MC
      def happy; print "C"; super if defined?(super); end
    end

    module M
      def happy; print "M"; super; end
    end

    class S < MC
      include M
      def happy; print "x"; super if defined?(super); end
    end

    s = S.new

    print "superclass: "; s.happy
    print "\t", class << s; self; end.ancestors.inspect; puts

Outputs:

    superclass: xMC  [S, M, MC, Object, Kernel]

The last is what one would expect. Seems that defined?(super) dosen't work 
with mixins even though calling super does. What do you make of that? Bug?

T.