From: "zimbatm ..." <zimbatm@...>
Date: 2009-06-10T06:17:49+09:00
Subject: Re: monkeypatch-0.1.2 (alpha)

:: News from the front ::

One aspect where I agree with Thomas Sawyer is that the API should be 
minimalized. Even I, don't like to learn new things if they aren't funny 
(and this project is useful but not really exciting).

By skimming the existing patches on github, I saw, oh horror, that I 
completely ignored the common extension case:

+++++++++++++++++
module MyStringExtension
  def to_moo
    "moo!"
  end
end

class String
  include MyStringExtension
end
# or String.send(:include, MyStringExtension)
---------------------

This is why the next version (not even on github yet) will use a 
dramatically different API. Not everything is fixed yet, but it should 
look like this:

++++++++++++++++++
module MyStringExtension
  extend MonkeyPatch
  def to_moo
    "moo!"
  end
end

class String
  include MyStringExtension
end
-----------------------

Pretty close isn't it ? This is the simple case where you just want to 
add methods to an external class. If you start to redefine, alias or 
remove methods, it's a bit more complicated. But just like this, you get 
the same as before, with the added assurance that is will not override 
another #to_moo method.

Cheers,
   zimbatm
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