From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-06-05T02:36:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 20201 - 20315

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Paul Brannan wrote:

> IMO, this is indicative of a more general problem than just IRB.  If
> one module changes Array, code in another module might not be compatible
> with those changes.  Ideally it should be possible to isolate changes to
> builtin classes to a single module.  I'd wager that's even harder to
> implement than it sounds, though.

i do this alot:

  module FooBar
    class Array < ::Array
    end
  end

which is a partial fix.

-a
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