#10927: [needs review] An object's element list should be immutable
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Reporter: justin | Owner: nthiery
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: categories | Resolution:
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Authors: Justin Walker | Reviewers:
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Comment (by mmezzarobba):
Replying to [comment:1 justin]:
> Instead of creating and saving the element list as a list, do so as a
tuple, and return
> as a list when requested.
I doubt people would be happy with the performance implications. IMO the
proper fix would be to either return an immutable data structure despite
the method's name, or better, to implement copy-on-write mutable lists.
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