On 4/29/06, Mike Fletcher <lemurific+rforum / gmail.com> wrote:> It's constant in that you can't reassign a different instance to the> same name (try setting X = 10 after you've set it to 20 and Ruby will> gripe).  The instances themselves may still be mutable (see> Object#freeze if you want to change that).
Well, that's not *quite* true. Ruby complains, but allows the reassignment.
In practice, though, it's not a big deal at all.
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