From: David Naseby <david.naseby@...>
Date: 2004-01-06T13:06:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling shadowed methods in an inherited object

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Comstock [mailto:cc1@cec.wustl.edu]
>If I have code like:
>
>class A
>	def foo
>		puts "A::foo"
>	end
>end
>
>class B < A
>	def foo
>		puts "B::foo"
>	end
>	def bar
>		# call A::foo
>	end
>end
>
>Is there a legal way to call A::foo from B::bar?


Can't do a super.foo. An ugly unreliable hack might be:

class A
  def foo
    puts "A::foo"
  end
end

class B < A
  alias_method :bar, :foo
  
  def foo
    puts "B::Foo"
  end
end

b = B.new
b.foo
b.bar

David
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~naseby/