From: Kevin Brown Date: 2008-02-29T00:53:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby ------_=_NextPart_001_01C87A21.60AE97F1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable but also said "Plugin authors are not aware of everything the LANGUAGE = has to offer." which does not follow. -----Original Message----- From: avdi.grimm@gmail.com on behalf of avdi@avdi.org Sent: Thu 2/28/2008 9:50 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby =20 That's what the poster said: "better, worse, the same as the Rails = version". On 2/28/08, James Gray wrote: > On Feb 28, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Florian Gilcher wrote: > > > Some time ago, many plugins had some implementation of > > String#constantize (better, worse, the same as the Rails version). > > This shows one thing: > > Plugin authors are not aware of everything the language has to = offer. > > Just to be clear, the Ruby programming "language" does not have a > method called String#constantize. It's provided by the Ruby on Rails > "framework." > > James Edward Gray II > > > --=20 Avdi ------_=_NextPart_001_01C87A21.60AE97F1--