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But you can literally inspect and interrogate objects. You can ask what methods exist. You can even make new methods at run time.

• paulryanrogers 2mo ago
  Right. And that's the issue. I want to read at a glance, without having to ask tools. Monkey patching and lack of parentheses means dropping into a new codebase is like wading into a ocean of possibilities with every file.
  • digitaltrees 1mo ago
    The community does generally document monkey patching and meta programming constructs. All other code tends to be self documenting. That’s all I am saying.
    • paulryanrogers 1mo ago
      Perhaps I just didn't write enough Ruby. It all felt very hard to grok for the time I spent with it. Whereas other languages, even quite obscure ones, felt more parsable to me.