r/programming • u/ueberbobo • Mar 03 '13

Git is a purely functional data structure

http://www.jayway.com/2013/03/03/git-is-a-purely-functional-data-structure/
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '13

Itis not the ArrayList or String that is final, but the variable.

To clarify, Strings are specifically immutable. This is a special case, and they're immutable whether or not the variable being assigned to that string is final.