On: Python proposal: add immutable (persistent) dictionaries

[snrji]

This is the kind of ad-hoc PEP proposal that could be completely avoidable if there was a generic modifier or initialization/declaration construction for declaring a variable as constant. So incredibly simple, so incredibly useful that it's hard to believe that it hasn't been accepted yet (it was proposed).

[laurencerowe → snrji]

A const declaration only ensures that the variable always points to the same object, not that that object is immutable. For instance in JS:

const foo = {};

foo.bar = 1;

[snrji → laurencerowe]

That depends on the language.