http://blogs.msdn.com/timng/archive/tags/Programming/default.aspxTags: Programmingen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/timng/archive/2008/01/15/immutability.aspxWed, 16 Jan 2008 07:48:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7126008TimNg2http://blogs.msdn.com/timng/comments/7126008.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/timng/commentrss.aspx?PostID=7126008<p>There has been quite a few discussions on immutability lately. <a href="http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/01/13/immutable-types-understand-them-and-use-them.aspx">Patrick</a> has written an excellent blog post summarizing some of the various thoughts on immutability along with a cool feature in NDepend to do immutable queries. The only thing that I would add is that immutability is definitely something to consider early on in the design process. It's much easier to start with a design that promotes immutability, rather then to try to graft immutability into an inherently imperative design.</p> <p>Next time I will post on a specific bug that we had in the VB compiler that would have been prevented if the VB compiler implementation was designed to be more immutable then it is today.</p> <p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ba16eca7-c021-4482-b48f-0f2e5922e727" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Programming" rel="tag">Programming</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Immutability" rel="tag">Immutability</a></div></p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7126008" width="1" height="1">Programming