builtins/frozen_answers.rb

tests/_examples/builtins/frozen_answers.rb in the metorex repository.

# What the runtime hands back over and over is frozen, so changing it cannot
# reach what everyone else is given.
p([nil.to_s.frozen?, true.to_s.frozen?, false.to_s.frozen?])
p(Comparable.name.frozen?)
found = /(.)(.)/.match("ab")
p(found.string.frozen?)

# A range holds its ends and nothing else, and every one is frozen. An
# instance of a subclass is an ordinary object, so it is not.
p([(1..2).frozen?, Range.new(1, 2).frozen?])
p(Class.new(Range).new(1, 2).frozen?)

# A subclass instance still stands wherever a range does.
walk = Class.new(Range).new(1, 4)
p(walk.to_a)
same = (1..4) == walk
p(same)

# `clone` carries the frozen state across and `dup` leaves it behind, and
# `freeze:` names the copy's state outright.
held = [1, 2].freeze
p([held.clone.frozen?, held.dup.frozen?, held.clone(freeze: false).frozen?])

Output:

[true, true, true]
true
true
[true, true]
false
[1, 2, 3, 4]
true
[true, false, false]