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snrji · 6 years ago
This is the kind of ad-hoc PEP proposal that could be completely avoidable if there was a generic modifier or initialization/declaration construction for declaring a variable as constant. So incredibly simple, so incredibly useful that it's hard to believe that it hasn't been accepted yet (it was proposed).
laurencerowe · 6 years ago
A const declaration only ensures that the variable always points to the same object, not that that object is immutable. For instance in JS:

const foo = {};

foo.bar = 1;

snrji · 6 years ago
That depends on the language.

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yen223 · 6 years ago
Something interesting to note is that Python’s ContextVar (introduced in Python 3.7) is a persistent dictionary.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0567/#implementation

lolc · 6 years ago
Nice I like having persistent structures available. Then I don't have to safeguared against unintended modifications.