I just discovered Base.ImmutableDict, and it appears to be a very strange type. I get the core concept of a linked list of key-value pairs. But the reference to the next node is of type Base.ImmutableDict{K, V}. How can an immutable struct contain another instance of itself? I tried defining a simi…

How does `Base.ImmutableDict` work internally?

dilumaluthge January 6, 2022, 2:20am 2

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