From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2008-02-29T17:23:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposed Solutions - Was [ Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby ]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now if we ever did get selector-namespaces, then I'd be completely
>  > against this. But since it appears we're _not_ getting the feature,
>  > this isn't a half-bad substitute IMO.
>
>  I made a suggestion for this a few hours ago. Looks like it got lost
>  in cyberspace :(  Oh well, I'll be extra brief this time, but
>  reiterate the idea:
>
>   class Array
>     def to_csv for FasterCSV
>       #...
>     end
>   end
>
>   [].to_csv #=> NoMethodError
>
>   space FasterCSV
>
>   [].to_csv #=> useses FasterCSV's version
>
>   space Ruby
>
>   [].to_csv #=> NoMethodError
>
>  Anything defined in FasterCSV would automatically use FasterCSV space
>  (use 'space Ruby' to get pure space).

I like this one.  I see two issues that still needs to be resolved:

1. How to get at several spaces.
2. What's the speed penalty involved?

Eivind.