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Created November 25, 2009 23:11
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Don't use aliases, they bypass classical inheritance rules you'd expect when you override methods
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aliases.rb
class A
def read(key) raise NotImplementedError end
alias [] read
end
class B < A
def read(key) puts key end
end
B.new[:x] # NotImplementedError
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