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

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 16.04.2014 19:15 schröbte Hisham:
> I know I'll be burned at the stake but here it goes:
>
> Monkey patching is a source of problems and non-reusable code, and promotes
> breakage of encapsulation and API contracts.
>
> There are always better solutions; the mechanisms that allow monkey
> patching are there for low-level metaprogramming, not for regular
> module/application development.

I agree in general, yet we both have contributed to a publicly available 
module[1] that does _nothing but_ monkey-patching ...

> Hisham (rant over too)

Philipp

  [1]: https://github.com/hishamhm/lua-compat-5.2