From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2003-08-27T00:10:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Freezing OpenStruct

On 2003-08-26 21:39:34 +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> The irb session below demonstrates that OpenStruct objects (part of
> the standard library) allow modification after a #freeze.  Is this
> desirable?

It don't think so. A quick fix would be that:

Index: ostruct.rb
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/lib/ostruct.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -p -r1.6 ostruct.rb
--- ostruct.rb  18 Nov 2002 20:09:46 -0000      1.6
+++ ostruct.rb  26 Aug 2003 15:05:08 -0000
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ class OpenStruct
     @table.delete name.to_sym
   end
 
+  def freeze
+    super
+    @table.freeze
+  end
+
   def inspect
     str = "<#{self.class}"
     for k,v in @table

-- 
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  -- Edsger Dijkstra, How do we tell truths that might hurt?