From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2013-02-14T09:31:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:52235] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7839][Open] Symbol.freeze_symbols

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:08:28AM +0900, Eric Wong wrote:
> "tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)" <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to call a method like `Symbol.freeze_symbols`
> > which would essentially freeze the symbol hash, such that if any new
> > symbols are created, an exception would be thrown.
> 
> How about the option to do a soft freeze which issues a warning instead
> of exception? (but support both).  Start using soft freeze, and move to
> a real freeze later when apps/gems are fixed.

Even having a warning would be nice!

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/