[Python-ideas] Declaring immutability (was Re: Proposal to change List Sequence Repetition (*) so it is not useless for Mutable Objects)

[Robert Collins]

On 1 Jun 2016 11:04 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>... immutable instances, so this is likely to be better approached as a
type hinting problem rather than as a runtime feature.

+1

> The closest related concept I'm personally familiar with is const
pointers and references in C and C++, so there

I think rust borrows are a likely better fit for inspiration.

-rob
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