People do argue that by allowing monkey-patching, you guarantee that groups of developers will step on each others' toes. Refinements in 2.0 (http://ruby.about.

People do argue that by allowing monkey-patching, you guarantee that groups of developers will step on each others' toes. Refinements in 2.0 (http://ruby.about.com/od/advancedruby/a/Refinements-The-End-Of-Monkey-Patching.htm http://ruby.about.com/od/advancedruby/a/Refinements-The-End-...) are an answer to that.