Ruby

With Ruby 2.0 Module#prepend was used to overcome the drawbacks of alias_method_chaining. Most of the gems/projects still use alias_method_chain since they support 1.9.3 and with upcoming gems/projects using prepend for the method that is already aliased throws stackoverflow error since the aliased method and prepend method call each other and results in deadlock.

class Netter def requester puts " I am requester in Netter" end end class Netter def requester_with_alias puts "i am in alias" requester_without_alias end alias_method :requester_without_alias, :requester alias_method :requester, :requester_with_alias end module Prepender def requester puts "i am in prepend" super end end Netter.prepend(Prepender) Netter.new.requester