[ruby-core:75017] [Ruby trunk Feature#12300] Allow Object#clone to take freeze: false keyword argument to not freeze the clone

Issue #12300 has been reported by Jeremy Evans.

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Feature #12300: Allow Object#clone to take freeze: false keyword argument to not freeze the clone
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12300

* Author: Jeremy Evans
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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This allows Object#clone to not freeze the resulting object, which fixes a long standing problem in ruby in that you cannot get an unfrozen copy of an object that includes a copy of the object's singleton class. Previously, clone always returned a frozen object, and dup did not copy the singleton class.  This adds the ability to get an unfrozen clone of an object that includes a copy of the object's singleton class, allowing further modification.

Among other things, this allows the ability to create modified clones of objects that have singleton classes:

~~~
class A
  def clone(arg)
    obj = super(freeze: false)
    # modify obj based on arg
    obj.freeze
  end
end
~~~

I think this is a simpler and more flexible approach to the same problem that #12092 tries to solve.

---Files--------------------------------
0001-Allow-clone-to-take-freeze-false-keyword-argument-to.patch (3.93 KB)


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