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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Is better to subclass or to add methods to an existing class?
From:       "Christoph" <chr_news () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-09-19 20:42:03
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"Paul Brannan"
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> 1) He is right that adding methods to an already-defined class is
>    generally a bad idea.  There are some valid reasons to do that, but
>    99% of the time there is an alternative.

Well I generally try to avoid this too - but I don't believe that there
is a very strong case against this (well as long as your code isn't
intended as an extension for general consumption).


/Christoph


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