Every language (except some special languages were immutability doesn't make any sense perhaps) should have first-class immutable values declaration support. In the majority of cases when I define (e.g. in C# or Python) a variable I don't mean to ever change it (I only introduce it for sake of the code readability and to re-use the value in multiple places later), if it accidentally gets changed that's a bug. That would be wonderful if I could always define these as immutable the way I do with the `val` keyword in Scala and get a compiler/interpreter report an error once it notices unintentional re-assignment.
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Every language (except some special languages were immutability doesn't make any sense perhaps) should have first-class immutable values declaration support. In the majority of cases when I define (e.g. in C# or Python) a variable I don't mean to ever change it (I only introduce it for sake of the code readability and to re-use the value in multiple places later), if it accidentally gets changed that's a bug. That would be wonderful if I could always define these as immutable the way I do with the `val` keyword in Scala and get a compiler/interpreter report an error once it notices unintentional re-assignment.