From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-06-05T03:59:41+09:00
Subject: Re: When should actually freeze work ?

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 11:41 am, Philip Mateescu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following cases where I thought freeze should work. It
> doesn't, and I have no clue as to why... (in all cases assignment
> seems to cancel the values).

Because objects are frozen, not variables.


s = "abc"
s.freeze
s.frozen? # >> true
s[0] = 92
TypeError: can't modify frozen string

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