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Mutability

Mutable means that a memory location can be reassigned new values.

Related concepts:  ValueAssignmentVariable

Closest Wikipedia entry:  Immutable object

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Types and Programming Languages - Section 13

Misconceptions about Mutability
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ConstReferenceImpliesImmutability
An object referred to by a const variable is an immutable object
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