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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Analysis of property visibility, immutability, and
 cloning proposals
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins)

On 29/12/2020 10:28, Olle Härstedt wrote:
> I just want to mention that immutability might be applied too
> liberally in the current discourse, and in some cases, what you really
> want is*non-aliasing*, that is, uniqueness, to solve problems related
> to immutability. I think methods like `withX` is an anti-pattern, in
> fact, and a symptom that you do not*really*  want immutability, but
> rather uniqueness, at least in some cases.


Hi Olle,

I'm afraid I don't follow what you mean by "non-aliasing" and 
"uniqueness" here. Could you clarify, perhaps with some examples?

Cheers,

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Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]