monkey patch

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English

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Etymology

Apparently from earlier guerilla patch (“code that sneakily changes other code”), understood as gorilla patch. A monkey patch was then a more carefully written instance of such a patch.[1] Or simply derived from monkey (“to mess with”, verb).

Noun

monkey patch (plural monkey patches)

  1. (programming slang) A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

Verb

monkey patch (third-person singular simple present monkey patches, present participle monkey patching, simple past and past participle monkey patched)

  1. (programming slang, transitive) To alter the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
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References

  1. ^ Alexander Limi, Shane Hathaway (2005 December 23) “Monkey patch”, in Plone Foundation‎, archived from the original on 2008-06-04

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