Yes, SUPER:: is the usual way to access the super method. But the evil trick of invoking a method as a function with the object as first argument is different. It completely prevents overriding that method, no matter how deep the inheritance tree is. I know it is evil, confuses everyone, and is a sure sign of a broken design. But in very rare cases, it can be useful, even if it breaks the design even more. See Re^5: Object Method Call.

Alexander