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immutable

Postby William Hupy » Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:15 am

Is anything or anyone truly immutable?
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Re: immutable

Postby Slava » Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:04 pm

Is anything or anyone truly immutable?
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Re: immutable

Postby call_copse » Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:10 pm

There is generally a religious context to such queries, on which I would not be qualified to comment.

In programming, an immutable object is one whose state cannot be modified after it is created - this is helpful in terms of thread safety, a potentially very troublesome issue.

But I guess all things considered those are both a 'no' except in conceptual terms. The programming object is changed by being destroyed (or going out of scope etc) at least.
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