Bug #5828
Non anonymous classes can't be frozen, cloned and then inspected
Description
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If you assign a class to a constant (that is, it isn't anonymous), and you freeze it and then clone it, you can't call to_s on it.
MyClass = Class.new ; MyClass.freeze.clone.to_s RuntimeError: can't modify frozen Class from (irb):1:in `to_s' from (irb):1 from /Users/agrimm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-head/bin/irb:16:in `<main>' MyConstantObject = Object.new ; MyConstantObject.freeze.clone.to_s # => "#<Object:0x00000100884d60>" MyClass_2 = Class.new ; MyClass_2.clone.to_s # => "#<Class:0x00000100872930>" MyClass_3 = Class.new ; MyClass_3.freeze.to_s # => "MyClass_3" MyClass_4 = Class.new.freeze ; MyClass_4.clone.to_s # => "#<Class:0x0000010088d4d8>" MyClass_5 = Class.new.freeze ; MyClass_5.freeze.clone.to_s # => An exception local_variable_class = Class.new ; local_variable_class.freeze.clone.to_s # => "#<Class:0x00000100964028>"
Presumably this is caused by class only determining whether it's assigned to a constant when it's first inspected.
I don't have a use case for freezing and cloning a class.
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