Honestly, I'd never thought I'd be writing about this, but the matter of patching globals turned out to be one of those topics that a lot of engineers seem to misunderstand. Most of us don't do monkey-patching, and even fewer stay around those implementations long enough to witness their impact. All the more reason to talk about it. Throughout the next few thousand words, I will be referring to mo
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