On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM, John Bollinger <thinma...@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.
