From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T11:18:03+09:00
Subject: Re: java guilt

On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote:

> On 3/14/07, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just solved a problem by adding an instance method to String.
>>
>> It makes for very elegant code elsewhere within the application.
>>
>> Yet I can't shake the feeling I've done something dirty.
>>
>> I think there needs to be a group like "Recovering Java Programmers
>> Anonymous" or somehting.
>
> I worked in Java for 5+ years, and am coming up on my one year
> anniversary on working in Ruby professionally.  I *still* think adding
> methods to core classes should be done very selectively, and only in
> cases where that method is truly useful in a wide variety of contexts.

...and...

> Note that I"m speaking of a larger Rails project with multiple
> distributed developers - if its just you and a small side project then
> hack up the core classes all you want.  =)

There's quite a bit of irony here my friend.  Rails ads a good size  
number of methods to the core Ruby classes.  ;)

James Edward Gray II