From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T13:37:34+09:00
Subject: Re: The Open-Closed-from-a-certain-angle Principle

Jay Levitt wrote:
...
> What if class definitions were viewed through a magic prism, where only
> those classes looking from the right perspective saw the new extensions?
> Mind you, I have no idea how to partition the codespace in any sane manner
> - even from a design spec point-of-view.  Should ActiveRecord see Og's
> extensions?  Probably not; but ActionView and ActionPack might want to
> share.  And what happens if Og passes a Hash to ActiveRecord that happens
> to include an Og-provided Time#today in it?

Maybe selector namespaces? There's been some discussion here and hints 
of having them in ruby 2.0. Search the archives if you're interested...

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