Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Jonathan Gardner a écrit : >> On Dec 18, 7:08 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > (snip) >> Monkey patching is definitely unpythonic. You must be a Ruby guy. > > Strange enough, I learned monkey-patching with Python, years before I > first heard of a language named Ruby.
Indeed. I believe the term started at Zope Corp. Ah, Wikipedia supports my recollection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch (And I swear that it did so before I checked it.) It looks like some Ruby folks have taken to calling the practice "duck punching", which has a certain charm of its own. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
