From: Johann Hibschman <johannh@...>
Date: 2001-04-28T08:40:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14358] Re: Immutable Arrays?

In article <3AE9B04C.A4BD2384@hurstlinks.com>, Guy N. Hurst
<gnhurst@hurstlinks.com> wrote:

> a = [2,3,4]  # array
> a.freeze     # now immutable
> a[1] = 0     # TypeError: can't modify frozen array

Thanks.  Would there be anything obviously wrong with:

class Tuple < Array
  def initialize (values)
    replace values
    freeze
  end
end

as a "freezer" object?  Or is this just getting silly?

--Johann