From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T05:21:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

On 1/8/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

> > This is definitely a point worth making, that *most* people know that
> > meta-programming is dangerous stuff
>
> If you are compiling this information for a written piece, I suggest
> beginning with some definitions.  I do not consider the above example
> metaprogramming, for example, just a violation of encapsulation.  :)

Well that depends on who put the secret value there, doesn't it? ;)

But good point.  How would you (the community) define
meta-programming, open class system, and the dynamic nature of ruby?