What is monkey patching?

Question

I am trying to understand, what is monkey patching or a monkey patch?

Is that something like methods/operators overloading or delegating?

Does it have anyt

Answer 1

First: monkey patching is an evil hack (in my opinion).

It is often used to replace a method on the module or class level with a custom implementation.

The most common usecase is adding a workaround for a bug in a module or class when you can't replace the original code. In this case you replace the "wrong" code through monkey patching with an implementation inside your own module/package.