Ruby Refinements landed in trunk

[spastorino]

http://blog.wyeworks.com/2012/8/3/ruby-refinements-landed-in-trunk

[mef]

A much needed change. With Requirements, libraries that you include in your projects can sandbox their monkeypatches to only affect their classes.

Likewise, if the purpose of a library is to monkeypatch a standard class, you can selectively include that monkeypatch only where needed in order to isolate any potential side effects.

[sdfjkl]

Encouraging bad behaviour by making it safer to behave badly.

[ericb → sdfjkl]

If it is safe, it is no longer bad behavior.

[sigzero → ericb]

No, that just means it's safe.

[nilved → sigzero]

It was bad behaviour because it was unsafe. Now it is safe.