Daniel Finnie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know how to invoke super so that it passes no arguments to
> the superclass' method?
> 
> For example:
> 
> class A
>   def initialize
>     puts "making an A"
>   end
> end
> 
> class B < A
>   def initialize var
>     puts "making a #{var} b"
>     super
>   end
> end
> 
> B.new "great"
> 
> results in:
> making a great b
> /tmp/super.rb:10:in `initialize': wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
> (ArgumentError)
>         from /tmp/super.rb:10:in `initialize'
>         from /tmp/super.rb:14:in `new'
>         from /tmp/super.rb:14
> 

class A
  def initialize
    puts "making an A"
  end
end

class B < A
  def initialize var
    puts "making a #{var} b"
    super()
  end
end

B.new "great"

--output:--
making a great b
making an A
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