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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Posts tagged mutability

For questions dealing with the mutability concept. A function, an expression, or a variable is mutable if involved values are subject to changes (can generate "side-effects").

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Q&A How can I create and modify a struct over iterations of a loop?

How can I have a mutable object (for example a vector) that is created inside a loop iteration and needs to be updated in later iterations of said loop? As a concrete example, consider parsing som...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by GeraldS‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A Understanding mutable default arguments in Python

Consider this code example: def example(param=[]): param.append('value') print(param) When example is repeatedly called with an existing list, it repeatedly appends to the list, as ...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭