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Re:A first naïve look at Truffle Ruby by dragonwriter on Friday February 02, 2018 @09:51PM (#16295861)
> Plus, in immutable languages, are there cases where immutability extends to nonscalar values like arrays or hashes or objects?

Yes, see (among others) Erlang or, if you like static typing with your immutable values, Haskell, both of which are pervasively immutable.

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Re:A first naïve look at Truffle Ruby by eropple on Saturday February 03, 2018 @02:24AM (#16296643)
This is why the `deep_dup` and `ice_nine` gems live in most of my projects.
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