[ruby-core:73898] [Ruby trunk Feature#12092] Allow Object#clone to yield cloned object before freezing

Issue #12092 has been reported by Jeremy Evans.

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Feature #12092: Allow Object#clone to yield cloned object before freezing
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12092

* Author: Jeremy Evans
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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This allows creating modified clones of frozen objects that have
singleton classes:

~~~
a = [1,2,3]
def a.fl; first + last; end
a.freeze
a.fl # => 4

clone = a.clone{|c| c << 10}
clone.last # => 10
clone.fl # => 11
clone.frozen? # => true
~~~

Previously, this was not possible at all.  If an object was
frozen, the clone was frozen before the cloned object could
be modified.  It was possible to modify the clone using
initialize_clone or initialize_copy, but you couldn't change how
to modify the clone on a per-call basis.  You couldn't use dup
to return an unfrozen copy, modify it, and then freeze it, because
dup doesn't copy singleton classes.

This allows ruby to be used in a functional style with immutable
data structures, while still keeping the advantages of singleton
classes.

---Files--------------------------------
0001-Allow-clone-to-yield-cloned-object-before-freezing.patch (2.51 KB)


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