3 Immutable values
In this chapter you will learn
- why mutability is dangerous
- how to fight mutability by working with copies
- what shared mutable state is
- how to fight mutability by working with immutable values
- how to use immutable APIs of
StringandList
“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
—Linus Torvalds
The fuel for the engine
In the last chapter we met the pure function, which is going to be our best friend throughout the rest of the book. We introduced and briefly discussed some caveats regarding values that may change—mutable states. This chapter focuses on problems with mutable states and explains why pure functions can’t use them in the majority of cases. We are ...
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