Alias_method problem

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Thanks. Using “method_defined?” worked around the problem.

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From: “Hal E. Fulton” hal9000@hypermetrics.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Steve Tuckner” STUCKNER@MULTITECH.COM
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:09 PM
Subject: RE: alias_method problem

I too have run in to this and implemented an ugly kludge to deal with it
(instead of taking the time to figure it out).

class A
$aliased = $aliased || 0

if $aliased == 0 then
# method “newone” is defined in a different file.
alias_method :oldone, :newone
def newone
oldone
end
end
$aliased += 1
end

Hmmmm… I haven’t tested this, but here’s a
thought:

Could you test the value of “defined? oldone”
rather than resorting to a global variable?
Still a kludge, but maybe less so…

Hal