On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 6:57 PM Jim J. Jewett <jimjjew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Immortal objects shouldn't be reclaimed by garbage collection, but they > still count as potential external roots for non-cyclic liveness. > So everything referenced by an immortal object should also be made immortal -- even its type. Hence immortal objects must be immutable. (There's an issue with making types immutable that we need to address though.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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