From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-07T23:45:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Word for monkeypatching

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Mike Stok wrote:

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| I am a little confused, and maybe my understanding of Ruby classes is
| muddled:
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| If classes are never closed then why do the need to be (re-)opened?

The intention is to make clear that the functionality was added after
the initial creator considered the original implementation complete (for
varying degrees of 'complete'. It also carries the information that it
was done outside of the original implementation.

|   'I added [] to NSNotification'

This could be taken as a patch to NSNotification's original source code.

Using 'reopening' implies that it is done during runtime, rather than
during design-time (as murky as *that* is with Ruby).

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