Thanks Matt: I didn't see super in the ruby-doc.org/ruby-1.9/index.html unless super is short for superclass.
Can I reach a superclass method without having the message go first to my subclass override of the method? Bob Rice On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > No it's not unique to MacRuby (Ruby and Obj-C support that feature) and yes > you can pass other arguments :) > > - Matt > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:16, Robert Rice <rice.au...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Questions on the super method: >> >> Is the super method unique to MacRuby? >> >> super forwards the current message to the superclass with the same method >> name and arguments. Is there a way to send a message to the superclass >> method with different arguments either from within the subclass method of >> the same name or from outside the subclass method of the same name to bypass >> the subclass method? >> >> Thanks, >> Bob Rice >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
