From: Tom Link <micathom@...>
Date: 2009-01-03T03:49:25+09:00
Subject: Re: What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby?

> If you're really finding it necessary to create a whole class and a
> method_missing apparatus to make gsub! chainable

This referred to the example of str += "foo". I was simply elaborating
on my alternative proposal.

> Part of the point of the #extend
> technique is that it requires pin-pointing what you actually need

You'd have to make sure you are the only user of that object then,
wouldn't you? You couldn't really make such objects publicly
accessible? Could be fun to debug code that returns such objects from
a method.