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Comment on Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel inconsistency; "super called outside of method" by Jason

Jason — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:40:37 +0000

Sorry it took me so long to approve your comments! Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

Vitaly & Matt —

So based on what you're both say, you're telling me that the behavior in p249 is wrong and Ruby should allow this syntax? Really my post wasn't to say which was right or wrong, but just to document it.

-Jason

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Comment on Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel inconsistency; "super called outside of method" by Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:36:41 +0000

While I do agree that this isn't perfect OOP, it is however a very rubyist thing to do, having inherited several legacy apps, this style is everywhere, and is a useful feature that should be kept.

Comment on unsolved: jQuery: Can you redefine the click function on a button? (unsolved mystery) by Josh Clark

Josh Clark — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:15:55 +0000

The .click(handler) function is just a shortcut for .bind('click', handler) . You can use unbind('click') to remove the click "event" right before binding the new click "event". (I don't think it's actually an event, because when I tried .onclick = undefined, it didn't work.)

Comment on Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel inconsistency; "super called outside of method" by Vitaly Kushner

Vitaly Kushner — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:28:27 +0000

This is not intentional! This is just a bug
As I understand it was introduced just before p248.
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2537
Should be fixed in the next patchlevel

Comment on Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel inconsistency; "super called outside of method" by Steve

Steve — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:14:50 +0000

I've see this on a project at work aswell.

Thanks for pointing it out, good to know someone else has noticed it.

Comment on Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel inconsistency; "super called outside of method" by sax

sax — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:54:45 +0000

Interesting. You could probably assign the parent method to an instance variable and then call that in the block. It makes for more complex code, but it make a lot of sense why you'd not want to call super in a block.

"a = Proc.new { super }" is kind of fugly.

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Software Parental — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:33:35 +0000

Good read. Will FWD.