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Re: Immutability and Python

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Date 2012-10-29 15:48 +0000
Subject Re: Immutability and Python
From andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
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2012/10/29 andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>:
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>
> Well sure but it doesn't modify the first object, just creates a new
> one.  There are in general good reasons to do that, for example I can
> then compose things nicely:
>
> num.increment().increment()
>
> or I can parallelize operations safely not caring about the order of
> operations.
>
> But while I do this all the time with more functional languages, I
> don't tend to do exactly the same in Python, because I have the
> impression that is not worth, but maybe I'm wrong..


By the way on this topic there is a great talk by the creator of
Clojure: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values

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Re: Immutability and Python andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-10-29 15:48 +0000

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