From: Robert Dober Date: 2009-01-03T06:21:41+09:00 Subject: Re: What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby? On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Mike Gold wrote: > Robert Dober wrote: >> >> Seriously now. Your warning is of course noteworthy, but this is the >> price we have to pay for fixing 1.8 to 1.9 compatibility issues. So >> the concern of yours is actually what I was doing here, deciding to go >> for the 1.9 symbol version and allowing code to run with 1.8 too. > > This begs the question, Has someone made a 1.9 emulation library for > 1.8? (Emulation to the extent possible, that is.) The > symbols-instead-of-strings difference of Object#methods and the like are > easy to change. Instead of individuals hand-rolling their own > workarounds when issues arise, there should be a unified solution: a > ruby-1.9.gem for ruby 1.8. Well I am leaning myself a little bit out of the window, but I have given some thoughts to it... I will open a thread for this, ok? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... ~ Isaac Asimov