Re: eliminating or reducing use of "mutable" keyword?

[Rik]

On 11/18/2019 02:20 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 11/18/19 3:03 PM, Rik wrote:
>> jwe,
>>
>> I saw your recent changeset
>>
>> changeset:   27709:0a84a7d0998d
>> user:        John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
>> date:        Mon Nov 18 11:57:51 2019 -0500
>> summary:     don't declare figure::properties::toolkit as mutable
>>
>> which removes an instance of the mutable keyword.
>>
>> Should we make this a Task on Savannah?  The use of mutable seems very
>> occasionally necessary, but also very often a hack where it might be better
>> to re-think the code.
>>
>> I used grep and found 53 instances of the word in libinterp/ and 8 in
>> liboctave/.  The ones in libinterp are clustered in the MeX interface which
>> probably isn't worth scrubbing.
>
> Yes, I think we should aim to remove all uses of mutable if possible. In
> cases where it seems like it can't be removed, it would probably be worth
> documenting and justifying why it is really needed.
>

I filed a task here (https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?15469) which
includes the lists of mutable instances I found in libinterp and liboctave.

--Rik