At some point it was decided that Strings would be immutable in Julia. Is there a record of that conversation (e.g. a mailing list or GitHub thread)? Failing that, is there a record of the conversations that led core language designers to decide to make strings immutable in another programming lang…

I can’t find the origin in emails, but this was my decision, effected by not providing any mutating APIs to strings. Here’s an older more direct explanation of why from 2012: There’s an important psychological distinction between things we think of as mutable versus immutable: values that are defi…

Why are strings immutable (historical records request)

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Why are strings immutable (historical records request)

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