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Bug #5828

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Non anonymous classes can't be frozen, cloned and then inspected

Added by agrimm (Andrew Grimm) about 12 years ago. Updated almost 10 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
-
ruby -v:
ruby 2.0.0dev (2011-11-27 trunk 33860) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]
Backport:
[ruby-core:41858]

Description

=begin
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.
=end

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