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Feature #12300

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Allow Object#clone to take freeze: false keyword argument to not freeze the clone

Added by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:75017]

Description

This allows Object#clone to not freeze the resulting object, which fixes a long standing problem in ruby in that you cannot get an unfrozen copy of an object that includes a copy of the object's singleton class. Previously, clone always returned a frozen object, and dup did not copy the singleton class. This adds the ability to get an unfrozen clone of an object that includes a copy of the object's singleton class, allowing further modification.

Among other things, this allows the ability to create modified clones of objects that have singleton classes:

class A
  def clone(arg)
    obj = super(freeze: false)
    # modify obj based on arg
    obj.freeze
  end
end

I think this is a simpler and more flexible approach to the same problem that #12092 tries to solve.


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Updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) over 8 years ago

Sounds much simpler than the previous one to understand what is happening. Also it seems backwards-compatible.

Given the needs of this kind, I'd like to +1.

Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) over 8 years ago

Sounds reasonable.

Matz.

Actions #3

Updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset r55786.


Object#clone with freeze: false [Feature #12300]

* object.c (rb_obj_clone2): Allow Object#clone to take freeze:
  false keyword argument to not freeze the clone.
  [ruby-core:75017][Feature #12300]

* test/ruby/test_object.rb (TestObject): test for it.
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