All these immutability flavors are invaluable for good defensive programming ... of patterns for separating a class API into mutable and immutable parts here. package items; public class Item ...

Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java. Many programming languages allow passing objects by reference or by value. In Java, we can only pass object ...

No matter how many times you recreate and reboot it, you can rely on it being the same — immutable ... such as Firefox or a programming language toolchain. As Valentin Gagarin, part of the ...