From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-10-10T05:05:10+09:00
Subject: Re: The Open-Closed-from-a-certain-angle Principle

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:53:43 +0900, mortee wrote:

> Having modules to partition name space is great - but since any feature
> can extend any pre-existing class/module with its own methods, those are
> in no way proected from name clashes within a given module/class.

Yeah, that's really the core of it - preventing namespace collisions, so
that gems's Time::today doesn't conflict with, I dunno, facets's.

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