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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24042 --- Comment #10 from Morrita Hajime <morrita@google.com> --- (In reply to Anne from comment #9) > In general we should avoid monkey patching. 1) A specification may not be > aware of the patches being applied and invalidate them. 2) Readers of a > specification may not be aware of the patches being applied and write code > that turns out to be wrong due to patches. 3) If patches start getting > applied from multiple sources the mental model quickly becomes too hard and > mistakes start creeping in all over. Agreed. We have some more monkey patches in the import spec. I filed Bug 24632 to track these. Although I'm not sure if we can completely get rid of them, it will be good idea to make these glitches visible. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug.
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