Making immutable instances

[Mike Meyer]

Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
>     "Since the values of an enumeration are directly reflected in the
>     values and attributes, Enum instances are immutable to preserve
>     this relationship"

This justifies making the attributes immutable. But that's old hat - I
had that use case last year. It doesn't justify making the instances
immutable. Or if it does, I missed it.

       thanks,
       <mike
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