@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ The problem here, the thing that irritates me, is that we are using these mediev Likewise over in La-la-lisp land we have moved from naked recursion to recursive combinators. Combinators make our programs easier to understand and reason about. Naked recursion is GOTO dressed up in a scholar's mortar and gown. Likewise naked monkey-patching is GOTO dressed up in... Well, it isn't really dressed up, it's more baggy pants performing a frontside grab. -[Metaprogramming is beautiful.](http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/07/my-analyst-warned-me-but.html "My analyst warned me, but metaprogramming was so beautiful I got another analyst") Now that we have embraced its beauty, let's invest some time and energy taking it to the next level, finding ways to apply abstractions and constraints to it so that we can benefit from it without falling into these entirely avoidable contretemps. I've taken one swing at the bat: I think many of the extensions people have added to core classes (including #andand) ought to be syntactic abstractions rather than methods, so I wrote [rewrite](http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite/tree/master "raganwald's rewrite at master - GitHub"). +[Metaprogramming is beautiful.](http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/07/my-analyst-warned-me-but.html "My analyst warned me, but metaprogramming was so beautiful I got another analyst") Now that we have embraced its beauty, let's invest some time and energy taking it to the next level, finding ways to apply abstractions and constraints to it so that we can benefit from it without falling into these entirely avoidable contretemps. I've taken one swing at the bat: I think many of the extensions people have added to core classes (including #andand) ought to be syntactic abstractions rather than methods, so I wrote [RewriteRails](http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails). Now its your turn. Dazzle me. 2009-04-08/sick.md ad5cd0b95d1b0925778960c9d0c114a768f4b899 Reginald Braithwaite raganwald@gmail.com http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/commit/a82c759938257485bcd25e38c6d5e5bc9ec1aab3 a82c759938257485bcd25e38c6d5e5bc9ec1aab3 2009-11-06T07:48:07-08:00 2009-11-06T07:48:07-08:00 changed to point to RewriteRails instead of Rewrite ce90dc39016984065cbc45ce2d2be1284069fffb Reginald Braithwaite raganwald@gmail.com