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Feature #13224

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Add FrozenError as a subclass of RuntimeError

Added by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) about 7 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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Closed
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Target version:
[ruby-core:79581]

Description

Currently, attempting to modify a frozen object leads to a RuntimeError exception. Unfortunately, this means it is not easy to differentiate exceptions raised from attempting to modify frozen objects from generic exceptions such as calling Kernel#raise with no exception class.

The attached patch adds FrozenError as a subclass of RuntimeError, and uses FrozenError instead of RuntimeError for exceptions raised when there is an attempt to modify a frozen object. It should be backwards compatible in the sense that:

begin
  "a".freeze << b
rescue RuntimeError
end

Will still function as before.

More people in the ruby community are starting to use frozen objects for the benefits of immutability (thread-safety, cache-ability, referential transparency), and having an exception class dedicated to misuse of frozen objects will make it easier to handle those exceptions.

The attached patch is a little long, mostly because ruby's test suite is currently brittle in regards to handling exception classes. For example, assert_raise(RuntimeError) needs to be changed to assert_raise(FrozenError), because assert_raise uses instance_of? instead of kind_of? if given an exception class and not a module. Both RSpec and recent versions of Minitest should automatically handle this type of change without code modifications.


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