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freeze does nothing since Fixnums are already immutable.


HOURS_PER_DAY = 24
HOURS_PER_DAY.freeze # This does nothing since Fixnums are already immutable.

HOURS_PER_DAY = 26
# warning: already initialized constant HOURS_PER_DAY
HOURS_PER_DAY                            # => 26








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