On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:58:04 -0500, Sergey Kovrov wrote: > I cannot find any information about immutable keyword. I presume it is a > storage class and should be described in "Declarations" manual page, but > it is not. On the other hand it is mentioned in changelog and some > manual pages. Is it an alias for invariant or const, or something > completely different? > > -- serg.
I'm not sure what is the real reason for it's existence, but it seems many people prefer the term immutable over invariant. So I guessed that Walter is planning on changing the name to immutable. He might keep both in there, but I really don't think that is a good idea.
