Re: Properties and readonly objects
sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
>> Another is that you can optimize GC with this kind of
knowledge.
>> It seems that, since reachability is affected by mutable plists,
>> you want the plists of immutable objects to be immutable as well.
Hrvoje> Hmm. The old "pure" stuff behaved this way for strings. It
Hrvoje> took the easy way out for symbols, simply refusing to create
Hrvoje> pure symbols.
Can't strings also have plists?
Of course. That's why I said that the old stuff behaved this way for
strings; by "this way" I referred to what you stated about immutable
object's plists being immutable as well.