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Well if it wasn’t mutable, it wouldn’t be state but just a global constant variable. Which is much less harmful.
by stingraycharles 5y ago
Well if it wasn’t mutable, it wouldn’t be state but just a global constant variable. Which is much less harmful.
- hinkley 5y agoSnapshots are state that has very, very clear boundary conditions. There are lots of relatively sane systems that only allow modification in the interstitial. Of course as scale goes up, finding “before B but after A” breaks down, but we have whole systems running critical infrastructure based on Communicating Sequential Processes, which is the closest we’ve gotten to solving this problem.