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Re: Immutability and Python

From Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Immutability and Python
Date 2012-10-30 16:45 -0400
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rusi wrote:

> On Oct 29, 8:20 pm, andrea crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote:
> <snipped>
>> Any comments about this? What do you prefer and why?
> 
> Im not sure how what the 'prefer' is about -- your specific num
> wrapper or is it about the general question of choosing mutable or
> immutable types?
> 
> If the latter I would suggest you read
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov#Criticism_of_OOP
> 
> [And remember that Stepanov is the author of C++ STL, he is arguably
> as important in the C++ world as Stroustrup]

The usual calls for immutability are not related to OO.  They have to do with 
optimization, and specifically with parallel processing.

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Immutability and Python andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-10-29 15:20 +0000
  Re: Immutability and Python Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-29 08:55 -0700
    Re: Immutability and Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-30 03:08 +1100
    Re: Immutability and Python andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-10-29 16:33 +0000
  Re: Immutability and Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-29 23:02 +0000
  Re: Immutability and Python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-10-30 09:22 -0700
    Re: Immutability and Python Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2012-10-30 16:45 -0400
      Re: Immutability and Python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-10-30 20:21 -0700
  Re: Immutability and Python Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2012-11-08 08:38 +0100

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