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Comment by y1n0

3 months ago

Immutability is definitely first class in clojure, but you can work with mutable structures when you need to.

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mrkeen  3 months ago

This is sounds like memory safety in C++.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714401/c-plus-plus-creato...

  • nequo  3 months ago

    This seems like a meaningless criticism when it comes to immutability in Clojure. You can have mutability in Haskell too. That doesn’t make it as unsafe as memory management in C++.

    • mrkeen  3 months ago

      > You can have mutability in Haskell too.

      Haskell enforces this via a type system.

      What safeguards around mutability does Clojure have?

      If I import a method 'foo()', is there any kind of contract, notation ... anything which could suggest whether it mutates or not?

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