Partial classes

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-06-25 23:26, Manu wrote:

> And that's basically the limitation I'd like to overcome. The fact
> something needs to be designed for it in advance; that is completely
> unrealistic.
> No 3rd party can ever anticipate what you might want to do. Whether you
> want to unintrusively extend some existing code, or you provide a
> library which can extend things in a general way.. If you can craft your
> partial extension in such a way than it integrates neatly with the 3rd
> party stuff you're using, that seems like a much more sensible approach,
> since it leaves the customisation to you, rather than the original
> author to attempt to anticipate...
>
> I really hate it when I have to butcher 3rd party code to add my bits.
> It makes it hard to maintain, if the author updates the code. Much nicer
> to extend it with my bit as a partial, and keep my code clinically
> separated.

Isn't it the same with partial classes? What if the third party class 
hasn't been marked with "partial".

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/Jacob Carlborg