Currently you can use `invoke`, although its future is uncertain:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13123
--Tim
On Sunday, November 22, 2015 06:10:38 AM andrew cooke wrote:
> 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
