thanks guys.

On Sunday, 24 March 2013 19:27:59 UTC, Shantanu Kumar wrote:
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> On Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:34:38 UTC+5:30, Jim foo.bar wrote:
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>> On 24/03/13 17:49, Shantanu Kumar wrote: 
>> > In this case, making the type immutable is probably encouraged but not 
>> > mandatory 
>>
>> yes true, it's not enforced or anything like that, but I'd say it is 
>> more than just 'encouraged'... what would be the point of using 
>> clojure's reference types with something mutable? there is nothing to be 
>> gained from that, is there? the indirection of vars/refs only makes true 
>> sense when dealing with values and pure functions... 
>>
>
> Right. I was being pedantic -- when I know what exactly I am doing this 
> information can be useful (i.e. as long as I only read from the old object.)
>
> Shantanu 
>

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