3.6. FuncProg Immutable

3.6.1. Rational

  • Purely functional data structures have persistence (keeps previous versions of the data structure unmodified)

  • The array with constant access and update times is a basic component of most imperative languages, and many imperative data-structures, such as the hash table and binary heap, are based on arrays

  • Arrays can be replaced by maps or random access lists, which admit purely functional implementation, but have logarithmic access and update times

  • Source: 1

3.6.2. Mutable vs Immutable

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3.6.3. Changes

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3.6.4. Immutable Types

  • int

  • float

  • complex

  • bool

  • None

  • str

  • bytes

  • tuple

  • frozenset

  • mappingproxy

3.6.5. Mutable Types

  • list

  • set

  • dict

3.6.6. Comparison

Table 3.2. Comparison

Immutable

Mutable

int

float

complex

bool

None

str

bytes

bytearray

tuple

list

frozenset

set

mappingproxy

dict

NamedTuple

namedtuple

array

TypedDict

dataclass

dataclass

3.6.7. References

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Functional programming. Retrieved: 2020-10-09. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming