From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-05T03:25:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20316] Re: Behavior: autoload calls rb_require() directly

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> I mentioned about fragility just because that will be an issue for
> Ruby 2.0.  For MRI replacing core methods affect less, just because
> core functionality is done by C functions.  But implantation like
> Rubinius suffers more.  I think we will soon need to start discussing
> separating/protecting core implementation from user code by some kind
> of namespaces or packages.

I agree. There's no practical reason anyone should be able to override 
Fixnum#+, after all, and protecting the core simplifies implementation 
and optimization too.

- Charlie