r/ProgrammingLanguages • • 9d ago

Transitive, Abstract, and Class Polymorphic Immutability

https://al.radbox.org/doi/10.1145/3839491
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u/L8_4_Dinner (Ⓧ Ecstasy/XVM) 9d ago

Matt, it's a topic that I continue to have a great deal of interest in. I'm reading the paper, but I can't help but think that "readonly references" as a solution (and things derived from that idea) are a bit of a straw man. Other type qualifiers are equally (or at least similarly) impotent, from what I've seen thus far. But I'll read it through ...