declarator augment
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(Variables) declarator augment
With augment
, you can add methods, but not attributes, to existing classes and grammars, provided you activated the MONKEY-TYPING
pragma first.
Since classes are usually our
scoped, and thus global, this means modifying global state, which is strongly discouraged. For almost all situations, there are better solutions.
# don't do thisuse MONKEY-TYPING;augmentsay 42.is-answer; # OUTPUT: «True»
(In this case, the better solution would be to use a function).