Monkey-patching Vs. S.O.L.I.D. principles?

Question

I\'m slowly moving from PHP5 to Python on some personal projects, and I\'m currently loving the experience. Before choosing to go down the Python route I looked at Ruby. Wha

Answer 1

Monkey-patching is just plain wrong, IMHO. I've not come across the open/closed principle you mention before, but it's a principle I've long held myself, I agree with it 100%. I think of monkey-patching as a code-smell on a larger scale, a coding-philosophy-smell, as it were.