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Re:Fighting Complexity in Software Development by sam_lowry_ on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:32AM (#20360312)
I guess he was referring not to metaprogramming in the common sense, but to the change of behaviour of built-in methods and classes.
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Re:Fighting Complexity in Software Development by tannhaeuser on Friday July 05, 2019 @05:23AM (#20361061)
Ah, I thought that's called "monkey patching".
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