modifying standard library functionality (difflib)

[Paul Rubin]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:
> "patching source code" canonically means "physically" modifying the
> original source file. Monkeypatching - which can only be done in some
> dynamic languages - is what you're doing above, ie dynamically
> replacing a given feature at runtime.

I came across a less polite term for this, analogous with "duck typing":

 http://justatheory.com/computers/programming/methodology/fuck-typing.html

Example application in perl:

 http://www.justatheory.com/computers/programming/perl/fuck-typing-lwp.html