Björn Lindström bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se
Wed Nov 23 20:16:44 EST 2005

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Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> writes:

> I'm curious as to why you care if people add attributes to your
> "immutable" class. Personally, I consider that instances of types
> don't let me add attributes to be a wart.

I agree. To me it seems like the OP kind of wants to implement
encapsulation from the back way.

Anyway, as he doesn't mention anything about using this immutability for
any kind of optimisation, I assume it's about "Control".

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Björn Lindström <bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se>
Student of computational linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden

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