From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2013-10-10T00:54:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57783] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8976] file-scope freeze_string directive

2013/10/10 headius (Charles Nutter) <headius@headius.com>:
> Issue #8976 has been updated by headius (Charles Nutter).
>
> See also #8992 that might address all issues by simply making the compiler and #freeze methods smarter.
>
> * Compiler would see through "literal".freeze and do what "literal"f" does now.
> * String#freeze could be adapted to use the fstring cache internally, so all frozen strings would be interned (in the Java sense).
> * No new backward-incompatible syntax.
> * Easy expansion to other literal syntaxes like arrays and hashes.

#8992 doesn't address the problem follows.

| * Need to modify for each string literal.
|   This is cumbersome.
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Tanaka Akira