Immutable things.

[Alaric B. Williams]

> If you must have immutable things I encourage some function which
> makes an existing object immutable, possibly recursively through
> structures.
 
Why not the other way around - the default type is immutable, as you say,
but you can cast to mutable?

With linear logic, this would be a winner, since the returned value could only
be used once. If we turn it mutable and then stick it in a binding so it can
be read lots, that'd work, since the now-mutable object isn't expected to 
be immutable anywhere else. No copying needed.


ABW 
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Alaric B. Williams (alaric@abwillms.demon.co.uk)

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