Tag: collections

I came across a situation recently where I wanted to preserve the immutability of lists of data that were being returned from a Python class. I held an implicit assumption that nothing in the code would change the content of the lists. But nothing enforced this assumption in the code, and the logic in the

Immutability is an important tool for writing more reliable code. Several of the core classes in Java are immutable (String, Integer, etc). But the principle of immutability can also be applied to specific areas of application code to improve the reliability and predictability there. An immutable object can be trusted to carry unchanging data between