On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM, John Bollinger <thinman42@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Ted Dunning wrote:
> > My view is that once it is immutable it is immutable. Restoring
> mutability
> > is done by making a new copy [...].
>
> That position is stronger than you make it sound. Changing a supposedly
> immutable object so that it is mutable would itself be a mutation. If it
> were
> possible then the object in question was never genuinely immutable in the
> first place.
>
I agree, but that is a bit more of a philosophical answer. I wanted to give
an operational answer.
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