head const (again), but for free?
sighoya
sighoya at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 15:14:29 UTC 2021
On Monday, 11 January 2021 at 17:15:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
> Introduce "readonly" as head-immutable. That means that all
> values in an immutable array are immutable, including the
> address of reference, but not the objects being pointed to.
This is an idiomatic break to the meaning of immutability which
is global const, while readonly serves the purpose of being
locally const.
You can mutate a readonly var outside the readonly scope, this is
never possible with immutable, let it be either head, tail or
head & tail immutable.
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