From: "evanwebb@..." <evanwebb@...>
Date: 2005-08-07T05:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: How safe: overridding require

The "safety" of this is probably debatable, and I believe so is the use
of alias to solve it. If we have many different librarys changing
require or other core methods, then there is bound to be some problems
eventually. Thats why I wrote maskable.rb, which allows classes to have
there methods masked by other versions of the method. That way, other
implementations of the method can run before the original and can
decide if they are done with the operation, or if the next
implementation should run.

The source is at http://hoshi.fallingsnow.net/svn/maskable/maskable.rb.

Feel free to use it as you wish.