Bug #21374: FrozenError message is inconsistent when a singleton method is defined on a frozen object

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 3.4.2
• Backport: 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN

[andrykonchin (Andrew Konchin)]

I would expect a message to contain an object class (e.g. can't modify frozen <class>: <object#inspect>) when an ordinary frozen object (non a module or class) is being modified. It works this way in the following example:

object = []; object.freeze; object.instance_variable_set(:@a, 42)
# (irb):5:in `instance_variable_set': can't modify frozen Array: [] (FrozenError)

But it doesn't in the following example:

object = []; object.freeze; def object.x; end
# (irb):4:in `<main>': can't modify frozen object: [] (FrozenError)

[andrykonchin (Andrew Konchin)]

• ruby -v set to 3.4.2