From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2008-02-27T04:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:45:27 +0900, "Jones, Brian - McClatchy Interactive" <bjones@mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:
> I'd be at least a little interested in potentially offering developers
> the chance to 'lock' their classes from monkey patches.

You can do this today if you want; all you need to do is freeze the class.

 class Foo
   # ... your definitions
 end

 Foo.freeze # Foo is no longer an open class

-mental