[Zope] when can a product be refreshed?

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:22:30PM +0100, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> There's usually no problem with using refresh and monkey-patching.
> 
> Only badly written products that monkey patch by first unconditonnaly
> saving the old version of a function/method, then replacing it with some
> new one that does stuff and then calls the old one, may fail.

That's probably what I saw.

Aside from refresh, are there other reasons you consider that technique 
bad? I've often used it as a sort of in-place decorator.

The obvious alternative is to copy/paste the code from the
original method. Is that what you prefer?

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