Thanks for linking this. I'd only glanced at refinements so far... reading these comments and example code makes my head hurt. I wouldn't have thought "solving"

Thanks for linking this. I'd only glanced at refinements so far... reading these comments and example code makes my head hurt. I wouldn't have thought "solving" monkey-patching with something even more convoluted and confusing was even possible. My favorite code example is from tenderlove: class Foo < SomeParent def baz(str) cached = str.camelize ary.map {|name| cached + name} end end Could have a completely different meaning than this code: class Foo < SomeParent def baz(str) ary.map {|name| str.camelize + name} end end /lights hair on fire