From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-08-08T18:31:27+09:00
Subject: Re: non-constant strings

On Aug 7, 2007, at 14:41, Dmitry Bilunov wrote:
> Hello. Why does Ruby have non-constant strings? It seems there is a  
> way
> to bypass object encapsulation paradigm and break object integrity.

Ruby lets you shoot yourself in the foot.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/79333

> Is there a way to disable such behaviour ($SAFE will not help,  
> because internal class methods will not be able to change instance- 
> variable strings too).

Nope.

You can search the mailing list archives for further discussion on  
the mutability of strings:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml

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