From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-12-12T08:32:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Freezing Variable Assignment


"Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote
> >> I don't necessarily consider the object to have a virtual state.
> > But I believe that _is_ what is intended by "freeze", and I think
> > others comments in this thread bear that out.
>
> I get just the opposite, except from you.

Please tell me how you would implement MyHash#freeze below, assuming it has
other hash-like methods and I want a frozen myhash to behave like a frozen
hash.

class MyHash
    attr_accessor :keys, :values
    def initialize *args
        @keys = []
        @values = []
        # ... other stuff
    end
    def freeze
        # ??
    end
end

Then perhaps you can help me understand how your freeze is doing something
other than freeze a "virtual state" of myhash, something a bit deeper than
the values of MyHash's immediate instance variables.

Thanks.