Yuval Shavit

I know I've talked about mutability before, but I realized the other day yet another argument against taking immutability too far: it co...

In my last post, I summarized Effes' polymorphism by observing that you can't know exactly how an object will behave unless you crea...

I've been putting off for too long my ideas for subtyping and function resolution, because I've wanted to get things juuust right. I...

Eek, it's been a while since I've written here. I've been putting off a few posts on subtypes and function resolution, because m...

I want to add a quick addendum to yesterday's post about best practices. I mentioned the staircase problem caused by Node's reliance...

I took a bit of a break from Effes over the Fourth of July weekend to relax with friends, watch some TV and teach myself node.js by jumping...

In my last post, I proposed a working definition for mutability: in short, an object mutable if code can directly affect its state. I mentio...