From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T20:40:29+09:00
Subject: assumptions about the core API

I was going to add Module#abstract and Array#shuffle in a module I am 
writing but then I thought:

1. Is that good style? Could I break the libraries the module uses (or 
some future release of them) if they already defined those methods?

2. The other way around: People using my module might modify some core 
API or define the methods I added with a side effect that breaks my 
code?

How do you normally handle this kind of modifications? Is there a way to 
change the core API in kind of a local manner? If not, do you document 
it, or do you just avoid it?

-- fxn