Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> writes: > "patching source code" canonically means "physically" modifying the > original source file. Monkeypatching - which can only be done in some > dynamic languages - is what you're doing above, ie dynamically > replacing a given feature at runtime.
I came across a less polite term for this, analogous with "duck typing": http://justatheory.com/computers/programming/methodology/fuck-typing.html Example application in perl: http://www.justatheory.com/computers/programming/perl/fuck-typing-lwp.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
