Re: Monkey Patching is Bad, Unless Really Needed (was Re: A guide to building Lua modules)

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> 2014-04-16 19:15 GMT+02:00 Hisham <h@hisham.hm>:
> 
> > Monkey Patching is Never Really Needed.
> 
> Does strict.lua count as monkey-patching? 

  Yes.

  But (going by the code in Lua 5.1 etc/ directory), code written to work
with strict.lua will still work without strict.lua, i.e. code does not
depend on strict.lua being in use.

  -spc (Knowledge is knowing how to do it.  Wisdom is knowing when to do it)