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 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?