Ruby Refinements landed in trunk

#1

Post by spastorino » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

Ruby Refinements landed in trunk
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Re: Ruby Refinements landed in trunk

#2

Post by sdfjkl » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 5:47 PM UTC

Encouraging bad behaviour by making it safer to behave badly.

Re: Ruby Refinements landed in trunk

#3

Post by ericb » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 5:51 PM UTC

sdfjkl wrote: post #2

Encouraging bad behaviour by making it safer to behave badly.

If it is safe, it is no longer bad behavior.

Re: Ruby Refinements landed in trunk

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Post by mef » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 6:06 PM UTC

A much needed change. With Requirements, libraries that you include in your projects can sandbox their monkeypatches to only affect their classes.

Likewise, if the purpose of a library is to monkeypatch a standard class, you can selectively include that monkeypatch only where needed in order to isolate any potential side effects.

Re: Ruby Refinements landed in trunk

#5

Post by sigzero » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 6:33 PM UTC

ericb wrote: post #3

sdfjkl wrote: post #2

Encouraging bad behaviour by making it safer to behave badly.

If it is safe, it is no longer bad behavior.

No, that just means it's safe.

Re: Ruby Refinements landed in trunk

#6

Post by nilved » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 6:55 PM UTC

sigzero wrote: post #5

ericb wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it is safe, it is no longer bad behavior.

No, that just means it's safe.

It was bad behaviour because it was unsafe. Now it is safe.