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Spawned from Bug 24623: > 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. We have some for now. This is a master bug to track these to be removed.