On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Terry Moore wrote: > If you're not wring/changing the array no problems. But to be safe use > Object#freeze... > > Terry Moore > > On 19/10/2011, at 6:26 PM, Michael Johnston <lastobe...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Note, in my example I can also guarantee that none of the elements in b are >> going to be changed (for example, an array of strings)
Object#freeze is a terrible method. Supporting it requires an extra check (#frozen?) in every method that tries to modify an object. This is why Ruby is slow (certainly not the only reason, but decisions like this are everywhere). :) Using #freeze won't save you but it will throw a RuntimeException if you try to modify a frozen object. So it's really only good for pointing out that you have a bug when you attempt to modify your immutable array. cr _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
