in reply to Safer monkey-patching

Isn't the Factory_design_pattern also a solution to this? (It requires a complete rewrite of the original class, though :-)

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Re^2: Safer monkey-patching
by tobyink (Canon) on Jan 19, 2012 at 10:21 UTC

    If we were able to rewrite the original class, then we wouldn't be in this situation.

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      Well, yeah. But if we write our classes using Factories, we do not get anyone into the situation.
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