He's likely referencing that you would need to use different syntax and style, like re-assigning a variable or chaining calls, like when working with a String in Java.
In C, you can simply mutate the underlying characters. So changing the fifth character in a string is as easy as:
str[4] = 0;
Whereas using the immutable syntax you might have to do something like:
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He's likely referencing that you would need to use different syntax and style, like re-assigning a variable or chaining calls, like when working with a String in Java.
In C, you can simply mutate the underlying characters. So changing the fifth character in a string is as easy as:
Whereas using the immutable syntax you might have to do something like: