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- Subject: Re: Immutable tables
- From: Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:22:36 +0100
> Immutable variables, not so easy.
Immutable variables is a full compile-time thing. Unless you evil-hack
into _ENV to change a value in background, any write access to a
variable is visible at compile time. No need for runtime support.
> Everything can go into a module...
That is only taking the bad things and ignore all the good optimization things.
> I'll sit down and write the code next time I feel I really need these
> immutable thingies. Which probably means never.
Which is a logical conclusion only if taking the former assumption.