daz wrote: > Joel VanderWerf wrote: > > >>Is is safe to freeze an object (an array, say) in ruby, but modify it >>from C extension code? > > > > This thread might help. > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/94429?94266-96840 Well, matz encourages (in [ruby-talk:94540]) extension writers to check frozen status, but does not say he requires it. I was just worried that in the future there might be some optimization that assumed "obj.freeze" was a promise not to change the object. In my case, I just want to ensure that the object is not modified by user code, but only by my extension.