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Immutable Strings

Immutable Strings

Owned by Eliot Muir
Last updated: Sept 25, 2021

When we have string variables in Lua and Javacript they are implemented as “immutable strings”. This means that a string is never modified - if we ‘modify’ a string - we really copying it and making a new one.

String is immutable. What exactly is the meaning?

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