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This this an unfortunate language that won't let you overwrite or "shadow" bindings? In F#, for instance, I try to scope and/or rebind identifiers that shouldn'

• taeric 12y ago
  This sounds like a scotsman's argument. I could have just reassigned the value, however we have style guidelines saying they have to be final. So, yes, I could have shadowed it in another block or function. At that point, I'm beginning to question just how immutable we wan't the view of the world to be. This gets back to my point in a sibling about more types and better organization could have helped. Sure. I'm not even going to claim that immutability caused this bug. As it didn't. It also was not a silver bullet that helped make this code bug free.