Immutability Disrupts the Linux Kill Chain

Immutability Disrupts the Linux Kill Chain

Immutability: An Empirical Study in Scala

Utilizing immutability is considered to have many desired benefits when it comes to software development and reasoning about programs. It is also one of the core principles of functional programming, and many programming languages have support for specifying immutability. Developers can by specifying immutability write code that, for example, prevent program state from being unintentionally mut...

Quantifying and Explaining Immutability in Scala

Functional programming typically emphasizes programmingwith first-class functions and immutable data. Immutable data types enable fault tolerance in distributed systems, and ensure process isolation in message-passing concurrency, among other applications. However, beyond the distinction between reassignable and non-reassignable fields, Scala’s type system does not have a built-in notion of imm...

Immutability

One of the main reasons aliasing has to be controlled, as highlighted in another chapter [1] of this book [2], is the possibility that a variable can unexpectedly change its value without the referrer’s knowledge. This book will not be complete without a discussion of the impact of immutability on referenceabundant imperative object-oriented languages. In this chapter we briefly survey possible...

Scrutinizing Immutability: Research on Sexual Orientation and U.S. Legal Advocacy for Sexual Minorities.

We review scientific research and legal authorities to argue that the immutability of sexual orientation should no longer be invoked as a foundation for the rights of individuals with same-sex attractions and relationships (i.e., sexual minorities). On the basis of scientific research as well as U.S. legal rulings regarding lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) rights, we make three claims: First, a...