“libraries … are guaranteed not to change during runtime” = a language i *don’t* need to learn – http://t.co/FAjiIcFq
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“libraries … are guaranteed not to change during runtime” = a language i *don’t* need to learn – http://t.co/FAjiIcFq
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What does that even mean? That libraries are guaranteed to never be swapped out??
Posted 26 Dec 2011 at 5:50 pm ¶Mike,
It means that you cannot add or change the definition of classes at runtime. (Ie, no monkey patching.) My problem with that is that it precludes almost all meta-programming.
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