[ruby-core:101555] [Ruby master Misc#17412] Regexp vs Range: freezing differences

Issue #17412 has been updated by zverok (Victor Shepelev).


Thanks for the explanation!

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Misc #17412: Regexp vs Range: freezing differences
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17412#change-89339

* Author: zverok (Victor Shepelev)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
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While working on the changelog, I noticed the following in the 3.0:
```ruby
/foo/.frozen?  # => true 
(1..3).frozen? # => true 

# but...
Regexp.new('foo').frozen? # => false 
# ...whereupon
Range.new(1, 3).frozen?   # => true 
```

I'd like to understand, what is there a reason for non-literal regexps to not being frozen, and for ranges to be?
Corresponding tickets (#16377 and #15504) doesn't clarify the reasoning:

> For the record: `Regexp.new` should continue to return unfrozen Regexp instance. (@mame at #16377#note-7)

and:
> I'm for freezing all Ranges, not only Range literals. I hate the idea of freezing only literals because casually mixing frozen and unfrozen objects leads to hard-to-debug bugs that depend upon data flow. (@mame at #15504#note-3)

I understand that the matter is probably negligible, but will be very grateful for some explanations.



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