From: "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
Date: 2013-09-15T20:01:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57215] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8909] Expand "f" frozen	suffix to literal arrays and hashes


Issue #8909 has been updated by headius (Charles Nutter).


FWIW, I would still optimize frozen-arrays-of-literals to always return the same object, and frozen empty arrays and hashes would be the same object everywhere, but the expression nature of the array elements means this would be an unspecified characteristic of the feature.
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Feature #8909: Expand "f" frozen suffix to literal arrays and hashes
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8909#change-41827

Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
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The "f" suffix to declare a frozen string was recently accepted into 2.1, and I think it's a spectacular addition. I would very much like to see it work for literal arrays and hashes too:

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]f

{foo: 1, bar: 2, baz: 3}f

There are many, many cases where this could reduce allocation (frozen array with literal elements would only need to be allocated once) and improve thread-safety (explicitly create frozen arrays and hashes when creating structures that might be used across threads).

Is there any reason why we could not do this? I believe both of the above syntaxes would be invalid today, as was the case with the String "f" suffix, and hopefully that means the work to add this syntax would be similar.


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