On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 14:40:18 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
You said "Computer Science has found that the right
default for variables is to have them immutable". I don't think
"Rust == Computer Science". Otherwise their compiler would be
fast (Computer Science knows how to do fast compilers).
FWIW, proper computer scientists do not care about making fast
compilers... They care about proving properties such as "why and
when algorithm 1 is faster than algorithm 2 for data sets that
approaches infinite size, given infinite memory"... Computer
Science is the stepchild of Discrete Mathematics. Highly
impractical, but very useful.
