Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

[Julien Salort]

Le 12/10/2017 à 17:57, bartc a écrit :

> With a const struct, you are stopped from directly modifying elements, 
> but if an element is a pointer, nothing stops you writing to what the 
> pointer points to, unless that has a const target too. And then you've 
> going to have problems doing normal updates. This constness just 
> insinuates itself everywhere.

That is not very different from the mutable/immutable concept in Python, 
is it ?
A tuple is immutable, but if it contains a mutable object, nothing 
prevents you from mutating it.
Does it mean you think the mutable/immutable concept of Python is flawed?

Julien