From: "David A. Black" Date: 2009-09-18T20:29:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Monkey Patching 2 Methods, Overrides One Method, Not The Other Hi -- On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Josh Cheek wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Marc Heiler wrote: > >>> I'm never quite sure what people mean by "monkey patching" -- it >>> always sounds like deliberately doing something badly, so that >>> having it not work shouldn't be a surprise :-) >> >> I am glad Dave is hitting on that so I don't have to! >> I got so downvoted on reddit when I tried to replace the term >> "monkey patching" with "god patching" - guess I couldn't quite >> convince people that "god patching" would be a more appropriate >> name ... ;) >> >> But hey - I am just glad that I don't seem to be the only one with >> a slight dislike for the term "monkey patching". Poor monkeys, too! >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> > Monkey patching is supposed to be a euphemism for guerrilla patching, now > the euphemism needs a euphemism, lol. I'm boring, so I like saying "overriding methods", "reopening classes", "programming", and things like that :-) David -- David A. Black, Director Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypal.com) Ruby/Rails training, consulting, mentoring, code review Book: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://www.manning.com/black2)