> In dynamic langs the desire to monkey-patch is real because you often need to extend objects whose source you do not control. And in static languages, you ne

> In dynamic langs the desire to monkey-patch is real because you often need to extend objects whose source you do not control. And in static languages, you never need to extend objects whose source you do not control. I must be doing it wrong - I've only been tempted to monkey patch once, and that was because the folks who controlled the code explicitly said to monkey patch in certain circumstances.