On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Geoffrey Irving <[email protected]> wrote:

> A minor comment on the readonly / mutable discussion: maybe we should
> be using "writable" instead of "readonly"?
>

Your intuition that we are mixing constraints and permissions here is
correct, and this is indeed part of why the topic is confusing. Mutable is
certainly a permission. Readonly is a constraint on code, where immutable
is a constraint on type.


shap
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