From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-12-29T05:57:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Diff of opinion on dynamic stuff

On 28/12/05, Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com> wrote:
> Also, to generalize, it seems that the Ruby community is perhaps less
> sensitive to code smells or more tollerant of magic compared to the
> Python community, which I guess was my larger point.

Is it less sensitive to code smells, or is it something that isn't
considered a code smell in Ruby? I think that the Ruby community is as
... rough on code smell as any community, but we consider different
things smelly than the Python community does.

I think that's where some of the resistance to your points come in; to
the community at large, it is not necessarily considered bad to write
something that essentially opens classes (or objects) again. See my
own Transaction::Simple for an example -- it injects its functionality
into any class that requests it. In Ruby, that's definitely not code
smell. In Python? I don't know.

-austin
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