Immutability

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“Immutability” by Alex Potanin, Johan Östlund, Yoav Zibin, and Michael D. Ernst. In Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming, vol. 7850 of LNCS, Apr. 2013, pp. 233-269.

Abstract

One of the main reasons aliasing has to be controlled, as highlighted in another chapter of this book, is the possibility that a variable can unexpectedly change its value without the referrer's knowledge. This book will not be complete without a discussion of the impact of immutability on reference-abundant imperative object-oriented languages. In this chapter we briefly survey possible definitions of immutability and present recent work by the authors on adding immutability to object-oriented languages and how it impacts aliasing.

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BibTeX entry:

@incollection{PotaninOZE2013,
   author = {Alex Potanin and Johan {\"O}stlund and Yoav Zibin and Michael
	D. Ernst},
   title = {Immutability},
   booktitle = {Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming},
   series = {LNCS},
   volume = {7850},
   pages = {233--269},
   publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
   month = apr,
   year = {2013}
}

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