From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-09T15:22:10+09:00
Subject: Re: The Open-Closed-from-a-certain-angle Principle

On Oct 8, 2007, at 21:10 , Jay Levitt wrote:
> Let me start off by saying that I'm SURE this is either a bad idea,  
> impossible to implement, or both.  I just can't enumerate the  
> reasons why, and I thought this would be a good group to shoot it  
> down.
>
> Since it's so easy to add new functionality to Ruby core classes  
> (which are open for extension), many libraries do.  Rails adds all  
> sorts of things in Active Support, and other frameworks and libs do  
> similar things.  Gems does with Time::today, but is about not to,  
> so that it doesn't step on anyone else's Time machines.

Just to be clear, RubyGems is about to remove Time::today if you take  
about to to mean 6+ months into the future.

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