Bug #6037: #freeze bug

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 1.9.3

[ddebernardy (Denis de Bernardy)]

freeze should deep freeze, to avoid inconsistent behavior:

array = ['a', 'b'].freeze
array[0] = 'b'
array[0].gsub!(/.+/s, 'b')
array

RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.3"
array = ['a', 'b'].freeze
=> ["a", "b"]
array[0] = 'b'
RuntimeError: can't modify frozen Array
from (irb):269:in []=' from (irb):269 from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in '
array[0].gsub!(/.+/s, 'b')
=> "b"
array
=> ["b", "b"]

[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

Rejecting, as this is per spec. Behavior can not be changed without breaking a lot of code.

Note that I also would like a deep freeze (see http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2509 ) but that is a feature request, not a bug report.

[ddebernardy (Denis de Bernardy)]

Adding a note in case someone new to ruby ever wonders why it got rejected.

>> array = ['a', 'b'].freeze
=> ["a", "b"]
>> puts array.map { |o| o.object_id }
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70282007609700
=> nil
>> array[0].gsub!(/.+/s, 'b')
=> "b"
>> puts array.map { |o| o.object_id }
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70282007609700
=> nil