From: Charles Oliver Nutter Date: 2009-02-26T04:05:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:22489] Re: YASNP (Yet Another Selector Namespace Proposal) Yehuda Katz wrote: > To be honest, I'm not sure what Rubinius' experience has anything to do > with the desire for namespacing. I think Matz is referring to a desire to ensure that within Rubinius's "string.rb" that implements String, they are able to guarantee for certain methods that the "internal" versions are called. Then monkey-patching a core class would not (in theory) break Rubinius internals. - Charlie