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In this chapter we look at the importance of immutable style coding. We list some of the most common coding patterns where, in C-like languages, one used to have to resort to using mutable values and looping. We show how these can be re-expressed in immutable style.
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Eason, K. (2018). Immutability and Mutation. In: Stylish F#. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4000-7_5
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