[Cuis-dev] Immutability package

[Casey Ransberger]

Dude I was just reading a paper about Ropes. It’s cool stuff! I also saw that there’s a ropes implementation in the Cuis repo. 

I’m loving this immutability stuff, Hernan. +1 wrt Juan’s comments on this one. 

—Casey

> On May 8, 2020, at 6:16 AM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
> 
>  On 5/7/2020 3:56 PM, Hernan Wilkinson via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>>  I just added to Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/Packages/System a package to set an object as immutable. 
>>  The package name is Immutability.pck.st and it has tests in ImmutabilityTest.pck.st
>> 
>>  To make an object immutable just send the message #beImmutable to it. To make it mutable #beMutable.
>>  If you try to modify an immutable object the ModificationForbidden exception will be signal which is resumable.
>> 
>>  Please, look at the tests for more examples.
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> Hernan.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Hernán Wilkinson
>> Agile Software Development, Teaching & Coaching
>> Phone: +54-011-4893-2057
>> Twitter: @HernanWilkinson
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> 
> Very nice, Thanks!
> 
> Next steps include how to make method literals be immutable.
> 
> Something else that would be great is to gradually make Strings immutable. That would allow us to replace String with Rope if desired.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
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