Monkey Patching in Scala

http://zameermanji.com/blog/2013/3/31/monkey-patching-in-scala/

by amerf1 • 13 years ago

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robmil• 13 years ago

Ruby is gradually adding the ability to monkey patch without polluting the global scope via Refinements:

http://timelessrepo.com/refinements-in-ruby

octo_t• 13 years ago

(Scoped) Implicits are awesome, it turns out that scope is exactly the solution to the problem with generalised monkey-patching :o

Also props to the author for not using the (horrible) term used in early Scala documentation/papers/books of "pimp-my-library"

lmm• 13 years ago

Bah. Programming should be fun; there's a reason the biggest scala web framework is called "play". pimp-my-library is a memorable way to express an important concept. Documentation shouldn't have to be po-faced all the time.

seanmcdirmid• 13 years ago

The problem is that pimp has two meanings, the unintended meaning painting a weird picture in my head.

triplesec• 13 years ago

unfortunately that nomenclature might also lead to exposing a spank the monkey method which might also be suboptimal

Monkey Patching in Scala

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