Mark, your answer was great, I just wanted to make sure people reading the
thread in the future get a simple answer.
You did a great job explaining why the answer was no and I'm sure it will be
valuable to many.

- Matt

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Mark Rada <[email protected]> wrote:

> One day I'll get this question answering thing done correctly.
>
> Sent from my iDevice
>
> On 2011-02-11, at 20:05, Matt Aimonetti <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Do MacRuby classes completely overwrite Objective-C classes if you load one
> in with the same class name?
>
> Just to be clear, the answer is no ;)
>
> - Matt
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 11, 2011, at 17:00, Mark Rada < <[email protected]>
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Classes in ruby are open, which means that if you define it in multiple
> places, you get one class with things from all the definitions definitions.
>
> However, if you define the same methods, then which ever method you define
> last is the one that will exist. There are also techniques for concatenating
> methods.
>
> If you want two classes with the same name two remain separate, consider
> using a module to create a namespace.
>
>
> Sent from my iDevice
>
> On 2011-02-11, at 17:54, Robert Payne < 
> <[email protected]><[email protected]>
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> Do MacRuby classes completely overwrite Objective-C classes if you load one
> in with the same class name? I'm just testing the best way to communicate to
> a MacRuby class from an Objective-C class and wanted to make sure.
>
> Robert Payne
> Interactive Developer <http://robertjpayne.com/>
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