From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-01-17T06:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Fighting Ruby's bad fame

Hello gabriele,

Friday, January 16, 2004, 9:35:05 PM, you wrote:

gr> please forgive me, I'm dumb. 
gr> What's wrong with adding features to base classes?
gr> Possibly the problem is ovverriding methods, I suppose,
gr> but you'll get a warning for that..

It's simply the danger of a namespace clash. At least if short and
simple names are used as i have seen as a suggestion in a ruby book.

At least library developer should avoid this as hell.


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