From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T06:20:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: runtime-modifying Kernel methods should be keywords

Steven Lumos wrote:
> Even if everything mentioned became keywords, wouldn't you still have
> to worry about extensions? I actually CAN wrap #gsub and set $~ if my
> wrapper method is written in C, can't I?

I'm not sure how C extensions work, but you could conceivably do it with 
JRuby extensions. Again, the key here is treating $~ as a static keyword 
so we can prepare for a called method to modify it.

- Charlie