Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: The difference is that mutable objects may give the illusion of a pass-by-reference (because changes made inside the function are visible outside) whereas immutable objects give the illusion of pass-by-value (because you can't affect the original object in any way). This is also related to the confusion about assignment and what it really does.
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