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Is the Kotlin term “mutable” wrong?

The way I understood things is that the word “variable” referred to the capability of a reference to be reassigned. “constant” meant a reference cannot be reassigned. Essentially the difference between final or not in Java. To me “mutability” meant the ability to modify the…

Comparison of Double Constants

I researched this a lot and I know something about precision errors in the doubles; however I couldnt find the answer. My question is: is it always safe to compare double constants? What do I mean by that is, just reading the double from a string or creating in the source code. No operation (adding, subtracti…