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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Constant record components
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On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:25:06 -0700, ME wrote:

> What was the rationale for prohibiting constant record components?

Initialization and composition issues. Then often it is argued that
discriminants are, though limited.

However the functionality you probably meant is actually not constant
[immutable] components, but rather immutable public views of some
components of mutable [as a whole] records.

If there were record interfaces, that would be possible to have.

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