[julia-users] Calling "super" methods

[andrew cooke]

In OO programming it's quite common to delegate work to a supertype from 
within a method.  The syntax might be something like:

class Foo {
    method bar(...) {
        ...
        super.bar(...)
        ...
    }
}

I'd like to do the same in Julia, but don't know how to.  For example, I 
may have:

foo(x) = ....

which I want to call from within foo(x::Integer), say.

julia> foo(x) = "any"
foo (generic function with 1 method)

julia> foo(x::Integer) = foo(Any(x))
foo (generic function with 2 methods)

julia> foo(1)
ERROR: StackOverflowError:
 in foo at none:1 (repeats 79996 times)

doesn't work.

Can I do this, or do I need to pull the function out into a separate name?

Thanks,
Andrew