Quote: use 'readonly' for immutabile constraints and 'mutable' for supplementary fields and explicit downcasts; a mutable field is not part of the abstract state

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The Javari language extends Java with explicit mechanisms … Javari adds two new keywords to Java: 'readonly' … not part of the abstract state of an … [explicitly] downcasts from read-only types to non-read-only types. … [footnote] we believe that 'readonly' better describes the … [than 'const', and] … we wish to avoid confusion with the C++ …   Google-1   Google-2

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