From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2009-02-25T18:36:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22462] Re: YASNP (Yet Another Selector Namespace Proposal)

Excerpts from Yukihiro Matsumoto's message of Wed Feb 25 10:07:29 +0200 2009:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: [ruby-core:22427] Re: YASNP (Yet Another Selector Namespace
> Proposal)"
>     on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:04:34 +0900, Brian Ford <brixen@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> |In implementing Rubinius, we have only encountered one major issue
> |with redefining a core library method: mathn changing Fixnum#/.
> 
> Interesting.  I thought people behind Rubinius would love (or even
> demand) some kind of selector namespace, to protect their core
> libraries from users' monkey patching.

Selector namespaces was and probably still is a planned feature; if
Ruby has it, the better. It is not really for strict protection,
there are other mechanisms for that, but it would be cleaner from
the user's point of view.


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