Comments on: Donkey Patching anyone?

By: Hans-Eric

Hans-Eric — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:27:09 +0000

SuperCollider and Nice, eh? Sounds like languages I have to take a look at. I’ll put them on my got-to-learn-list, right after Lua.

External methods or Extension methods are both good names for the feature, but what should we call this limited form of monkey patching that becomes possible with it?

Also, I hope the name I suggested isn’t also the name of some dirty exercise, like these comments suggests: http://programming.reddit.com/info/2p3jm/comments
If that’s the case, I beg your apologies. English is not my native language (no kidding, right? )

By: BCS

BCS — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:12:18 +0000

I think there is something in C# 3.0 that looks something like this. I think they use the term Extension methouds

By: Asd

Asd — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:36:45 +0000

This is also possible in Nice. http://nice.sourceforge.net/

They call them external methods.

By: asynth

asynth — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:09:36 +0000

The SuperCollider programming language allows writing a.f(b) also as f(a, b) since 1996.
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/