From: "Jones, Brian - McClatchy Interactive" <bjones@...>
Date: 2008-02-27T23:20:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, James Britt 
> <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  It's not that these claims are entirely untrue, it's just that, in 
> > real  life, most people simply do not encounter the  
> alleged problems.
> >
> >  Code that is poorly written or does not play well with 
> others tends 
> > to  get discarded.
> 
> Except that I'm working in the real world, and I run into 
> these problems practically every day.  

It may be enough to simply have ruby warn us when and where a class has
been re-opened and a means to ignore it by file/path or namespace if we
want.

Brian