The future of Python immutability

Paul Rubin http
Fri Sep 4 04:41:34 EDT 2009


Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt at satorlaser.com> writes:
> Lastly, for the message passing, you also need shared, mutable structures
> (queues), so you can't live completely without conventional locking.

But that can be completely behind the scenes in the language or
library implementation.  The application programmer doesn't have to
think about those locks.



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