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That one's been waiting to happen for a while (Score:1)
Speaking as one who has added methods to UNIVERSAL and, on at least one occasion, set @UNIVERSAL::ISA, I'd say there's nothing wrong with monkeying with classes you don't 'own'. What always gave me the heeby jeebies about the way Rails does it is that they chose names that were obvious hostages to fortune.
When I was hacking on Pixie and needed to add methods to UNIVERSAL, everything that went in got a px_ prefix and should probably have had a pixie_ one. (Actually, now I think about it, we used to take adva
Re:That one's been waiting to happen for a while (Score:1)
Yes, the algorithm for choosing a safe name is, ah, less than wonderful. Should at probably be SHA1('pixie:pickle'), assuming we don't mind outsiders being able to guess the opaque method's name.
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