From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-11-14T06:02:26+09:00
Subject: Re: can't modify literal regexp: why?

Jeremy Stephens wrote:
> I was just curious as to why this is illegal.
> 
> Example:
> $ irb
>>> /blah/.clone
> SecurityError: can't modify literal regexp
>         from (irb):1:in `initialize_copy'
>         from (irb):1:in `clone'
>         from (irb):1
>>>
> 
> Regexp.new(/blah/).clone is perfectly OK.  What's insecure about cloning
> a literal regex?


(/blah/).clone

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