From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-17T23:40:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12773] Re: Status of (un)freeze?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:12762] Re: Status of (un)freeze?"
    on 01/03/17, "Christoph Rippel" <crippel@primenet.com> writes:

|I am not sure if Ruby really needs infinite recursion protection for 
|#egl?,#== etc. (#hash is trivial btw.) in the core. It won't be free
|in terms of running speed but it can be done relatively cheaply. 
|On the other hand it certainly helps if we were allowed to put 
|some hooks for our stuff into the core.

If you are going to make recursion error, I don't think it's worthy to
have in the core.  It's detected by stack level check anyway.  But if
you can compare tangled structure safely, it's worth it.

|Coming back to my original question would it be okay then too
|introduce a general method like #tmp_freeze (or Freeze objects)
|into the core for this - this seems much cleaner to me? 

Well, it makes me feel like implementation issue leaking outside.

							matz.