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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ changes. This can cause unintended side-effects or breakage of programs.
Refinements are designed to reduce the impact of monkey patching on other
users of the monkey-patched class. Refinements provide a way to extend a
-class locally.
+class locally. Refinements can modify both classes and modules.
Here is a basic refinement:
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Here is a basic refinement:
end
First, a class +C+ is defined. Next a refinement for +C+ is created using
-Module#refine. Refinements can modify both classes and modules.
+Module#refine.
Module#refine creates an anonymous module that contains the changes or
refinements to the class (+C+ in the example). +self+ in the refine block is