immutable class
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immutable class
In object technology, a class in which none of the elements in the instances of the class can be changed. In contast, elements in a "mutable" class can be changed, and a mutable class can be a subclass of an immutable class. See class.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
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For instance,
immutable objects can easily be replicated without the need for any distributed synchronization (In other words, no distributed protocol among replicas is needed to be performed in order to ensure that the replicas behave as a single non-replicated object).
Galaxies are no longer seen as
immutable objects: they evolve, interact, and merge.
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