From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-09-01T02:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Madness this way lies...

On Aug 29, 2006, at 8:23 PM, John Carter wrote:

> Ah me. In a fit of over user friendliness I did a couple of the  
> most colossally stupid things in a class.
>
> I, with head hung in shame, record them here so that...
>  * others may avoid them,
>  * I remember to avoid them later,
>  * writers of obfusticated ruby may benefit.
>
> a) Name a method the same as something in the Kernel module and then
>    forget that you have done so.
>
>    In particular I overrode "puts" in something that didn't inherit  
> from
>    IO. OUCH! That really does make printing debugging statements
>    interesting.

Actually, I love to do this for tests, especially when I use open-uri.

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2005/11/20/open-uri-makes-tests-easy

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