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- What is immutability and why should I worry about it?
What is Immutability? Immutability is applied primarily to objects (strings, arrays, a custom Animal class) Typically, if there is an immutable version of a class, a mutable version is also available For instance, Objective-C and Cocoa define both an NSString class (immutable) and an NSMutableString class If an object is immutable, it can't be changed after it is created (basically read-only
- Pros. Cons. of Immutability vs. Mutability - Stack Overflow
6 Immutability has, for example, benefits in muti-threaded programs As immutable objects cannot change their state after construction, you can safe share them across any number of concurrently running threads, without the risk of one interfering (by altering the state of an object visible to other threads) with another
- java - What is meant by immutable? - Stack Overflow
What exactly does immutable mean - that is, what are the consequences of an object being mutable or immutable? In particular, why are Java's Strings immutable? My understanding is that the StringBu
- oop - Mutable vs immutable objects - Stack Overflow
Immutable Objects vs Immutable Collections One of the finer points in the debate over mutable vs immutable objects is the possibility of extending the concept of immutability to collections An immutable object is an object that often represents a single logical structure of data (for example an immutable string) When you have a reference to an immutable object, the contents of the object
- Why is immutability so important (or needed) in JavaScript?
281 I am currently working on React JS and React Native frameworks On the half way road I came across Immutability or the Immutable-JS library, when I was reading about Facebook's Flux and Redux implementation The question is, why is immutability so important? What is wrong in mutating objects? Doesn't it make things simple?
- java - Immutable class? - Stack Overflow
How can one make a Java class immutable, what is the need of immutability and is there any advantage to using this?
- Why are integers immutable in Python? - Stack Overflow
20 What are the design decisions to make numbers immutable in Python? There are several reasons for immutability, let's see first what are the reasons for immutability? 1- Memory Saves memory If it's well known that an object is immutable, it can be easily copied creating a new reference to the same object Performance
- immutability - Check for mutability in Python? - Stack Overflow
19 There isn't actually any such thing as mutability or immutability at the language level in Python Some objects provide no way to change them (eg strings and tuples), and so are effectively immutable, but it's purely conceptual; there's no property at the language level indicating this, neither to your code nor to Python itself
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