Christian Mascher wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: > >> copying to a minimum. With immutables, you needn't do any of the >> bookkeeping. It is not that you have gone terribly wrong; it is that >> you have opened the lid on a large class of avoidable problems. If you >> look at Java's strings (as I remember -- it has been forever since I >> studied Java at all), you will find they are mutable. You also find >> that Java code copies strings a _lot_, just to be safe against lower- >> level mutation. > > Incidentally, Java's strings are immutable, too. Quote from "Head First > Java" (p. 589): > > "For security purposes, and for the sake of conserving memory > ... > Strings in Java are immutable."
Sorry about the mis-information, it has been too many years since I looked at Java. Perhaps I was remembering Pascal or Ada. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig