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0 pointsfrobozz8y ago0 comments

I see. When I see "immutable", I think of Prolog and Erlang (e.g. once X is 6, X can't be matched to 5 in the same scope) rather than languages that simply prefer byval over byref.

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joncampbelldev8y ago

well clojure does pass by reference, but the reference is to something that cannot be changed (i.e. a persistent data structure)

kqr8y ago

Unification and assignment are very different concepts, though, with only fleeting similarity in some cases.

lightbyte8y ago

Mildly off-topic: automatically shadowing bindings is one of my favorite changes elixir made to erlang

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