I'm not sure you can excuse the language totally. To stop code standing on other peopoles toes, namespaces and encapsulation were invented. In this case, there

I'm not sure you can excuse the language totally. To stop code standing on other peopoles toes, namespaces and encapsulation were invented. In this case, there is no way to encapsulate the change to Class.inherited, it must be Global, because the language does not support anything else. If the language did support other possiblities, then the social problems would have been less acute.