From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-12-07T07:17:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Freezing Variable Assignment


"Eric Hodel" <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote
> > "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >>   a = Struct.new("Effable", :a, :b).new
> >>   a.a = "abcdef"
> >>   a.b = %w(a b c d e f)
> >>   a.freeze
> No, the instance variables are not frozen, the instance 'a' of Effable
> is.

But 'a' is not an instance of anything. 'a' is a _variable_, it _refers_ to
an instance of Effable. The variable is not the object.