From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-05-07T22:13:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Word for monkeypatching

On May 7, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Brian Marick wrote:

>
> On May 7, 2008, at 5:08 AM, David A. Black wrote:
>> Not by everyone :-) I know I'm in the minority, but I'll put in a  
>> word
>> for those of us who dislike and, at least in my case, do not (and
>> never will) use the term "monkeypatching". It seems to me to do a  
>> very
>> bad job of conveying what's actually happening, which is neither
>> patching, in any sense that I've ever heard the term used, nor
>> "monkeying" (i.e., monkeying with the code, or monkeying around). All
>> "monkey" connotations are negative, and the issue of whether or not
>> its a good idea to modify existing classes in any given case is a lot
>> more complicated.
>
>
> David: do you have an alternate word or short phrase suitable for  
> using frequently?

Open classes or redefined?

> That is, something that fits in this sentence:
>
>      I got tired of that, so I
>      monkey-patched <classname>NSNotification</classname>
>      to define <methodname>[]</methodname>:

I got tired of that, so I reopened NSNotification and added a [] method.

James Edward Gray II