Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:25 PM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Code that is poorly written or does not play well with others tends to
> get discarded.
We still have Gems, which don't play well at all with others (on a
technical basis) - witness the conflicts with the Debian team, and
what every other Unix package maintainer says about this. This proves
that this mechanism doesn't work so well if there is a size/momentum
advantage.
Also, discussing what is appropriate and not is a good way to educate
people, and to us all learn to think more clearly in the area.
Eivind.
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