From: Kalman Noel <invalid@...>
Date: 2006-10-29T17:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Interesting trival example of why open classes are good?

Peter Michaux:
> I am trying to explain why the fact that Ruby's classes are never
> closed is advantageous. I can only think of relatively complex examples
> like Rails plugins. Does anyone have an interesting, standalone example
> showing the utility of open classes in under 30 lines? under 20?

You may want to have a look at the facets code to get some ideas.

Kalman