From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2005-01-08T12:41:26+09:00
Subject: Re: library method isolation

William Morgan wrote:
> Dear gurus,
>
> I often add utility methods to Hash, Enumerable, etc. For
applications
> this is fine, but for a library, I feel like I should avoid leaving
such
> "method detritus" around in users' namespaces.
>
I think your looking for selector namespaces.  This is planned for Ruby
2.0.
http://rubygarden.org/ruby?Rite
Google will turn up more info.

(...)
> Is there a way to extend/modify existing classes or modules only
within
> the context of a particular ("library") module?
>
(...)
> How do others deal with this?

Not sure how people are currently dealing with this issue, other than
ignoring it...

-Charlie