Dec. 15, 2021
6:59 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 6:57 PM Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett@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-c...>