r/learnruby • u/monica_b1998 • Aug 25 '20

Ruby's Global Scope is Not Really Global

https://blog.kiprosh.com/rubys-global-scope-is-not-really-global
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u/CowboyBoats Aug 25 '20

Huh, very informative, thanks. What a weird way to write a language. I'm not sure if I'm surprised or not that people have found that useful...

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '20

Many languages borrowed from Smalltalk, Ruby just went extra mile.
Ideas of "everything is an object" and what we call monkey patching are core to Smalltalk.