They would. Some of the constraints were senseless. You used to not be able to use class variables, even if they were already initialized and frozen. However, u

They would. Some of the constraints were senseless. You used to not be able to use class variables, even if they were already initialized and frozen. However, using static variables, and worse, changing them, was fine. Ruby uses a lot of pure lazy memorization. That's an aspect I'd like to see more accepted. A system that enforces rather than recommends, is a less usable system.