From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2008-02-25T22:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>  Assigning blame to a particular element of a programming language
>  seems foolish to me.  I'm pretty confident I can write some code that
>  abuses the heck out of while loops.  Should we start hating those now
>  too?

If you read the post, you'll see that I'm not blaming monkey-patching
- I'm blaming the faddish overuse of it when simpler methods would
suffice.  Like I said in the post, it's a cultural issue, not a
technical one.

-- 
Avdi