From: James French <James.French@...>
Date: 2009-03-25T20:02:33+09:00
Subject: Re: appending an array to a frozen array

Ah, I understand - thanks. My next question is - is it possible to prevent this?

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From: lasitha [lasitha.ranatunga@gmail.com]
Sent: 25 March 2009 10:48
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: appending an array to a frozen array

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM, James French
<James.French@naturalmotion.com> wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> @dependencies.freeze
> @dependencies += ["blah", "blah"]
>
> does not error out due to modifying a frozen array (1.8.7 p72).
> [...]

+= creates a new array and assigns it to @dependencies.  The original
array remains frozen but @dependencies no longer refers to it.

To illustrate:
$: irb
01> a = b = [1, 2]
--> [1, 2]
02> a.freeze
--> [1, 2]
03> b.frozen?
--> true
04> b += [3, 4]
--> [1, 2, 3, 4]
05> a.frozen?
--> true

solidarity,
lasitha