On Jul 9, 2009, at 12:15 AM, Yusuke ENDOH wrote: > > It seems to be an intentional change for the following use case: > > # http://nov.tdiary.net/20071215.html#p02 (In Japanese) > CONST2 = ["hoge", 1].freeze > CONST2.each(&:freeze).all?(&:frozen?) #=> false (expected true) > > I have no idea whether the the rationale is sensible or not. > If the compatibility can be ignored, it would be more reasonable that > all immediate values are frozen as a default. Making Fixnum instances frozen by default would break code that depended on instance variable state: class Fixnum attr_accessor :note end 42.note = 'the meaning of life' Gary Wright