Frozen Objects

frozen-objects provides some syntactic sugar of implicitly frozen objects and an freezing operator useful especially in class constants. Dont't find anything useful or some rocket science here. It's just sugar only, nothing more, nothing less.

require "frozen-objects"

class Foo
    SOME_ARRAY = Frozen::Array[:a, :b]   
    # ...or any other Array constructing methods
    SOME_HASH = Frozen::Hash[:a => :b]   
    # ...or any other Hash constructing methods
    SOME_STRING = Frozen::String::new("bar")
end

Foo::SOME_ARRAY.frozen?     # will return true
Foo::SOME_HASH.frozen?      # will return true
Foo::SOME_STRING.frozen?    # will return true

All attempts to modify these objects will fail on RuntimeError. Objects are also reported as frozen. From other points of view they are "normal" and fully compatible with Ruby implicitly non-frozen objects.

Frozen module defines also frozen operator. It's intended for nice and simple freezing whatever. Consider example above:

require "frozen-objects"

class Foo
    SOME_ARRAY = Frozen << [:a, :b]
    SOME_HASH = Frozen << {:a => :b}
    SOME_STRING = Frozen << "bar"
    
    WHATEVER = Frozen << SomeClass::new
end

Both methods are equivalent.

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