Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules)
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- Subject: Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules)
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: 2014年4月17日 11:45:26 -0400
It was thus said that the Great steve donovan once stated:
>
> For one's own private fun purposes, patching is like tweaking a
> configuration of an editor: making the language fit your thinking
> better. But then there's the danger of a private language developing.
> Say one develops a big app with a Lua scripting interface and it gets
> users. They see a function, and look it up in the official docs, get
> puzzled and proceed to puzzle everyone on Stack Overflow.
This reminded me of a blog post I made a few years ago [1] that's about
command lines and GUIs, but the underlying principle applies to
monkeypatching I think:
http://boston.conman.org/2007/05/29.2
-spc
[1] Seven years? It's been seven years since I made that post?
Sigh ... where di the time go?
- References:
- Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules), steve donovan
- Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules), Hisham
- Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules), Dirk Laurie
- Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules), Hisham
- Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules), Philipp Janda
- Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules), steve donovan
- Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules), Philipp Janda
- Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules), steve donovan