From: Kaldrenon <kaldrenon@...>
Date: 2007-08-08T22:55:00+09:00
Subject: Re: non-constant strings

On Aug 8, 7:51 am, "Jano Svitok" <jan.svi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Dmitry Bilunov <km...@kmeaw.com> wrote:
> > If there is a way to unfreeze a frozen
> > object, then this method could be called externally and one can gain
> > write access to an internal instance variable.
>
> Not exactly.

Shortest, closest thing I can think of for unfreezing an object is to
dup it.

a = "test"  --> "test"
a.freeze    --> 1
a << "test" --> TypeError
a = a.dup   --> 1
a << "test" --> "testtest"

(sorry about the non-irb format...default command shell in WinXP
doesn't allow copy/paste. *sigh*)