| Title | Immutability |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Authors | Potanin A, Östlund J, Zibin Y, Ernst MD |
| Book Title | Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming |
| Series Title | LNCS |
| Volume | 7850 |
| Pagination | 233–269 |
| Date or Month Published | April |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag |
| 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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| Citation Key | PotaninOZE2013 |
