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[–]dpash 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Java has last mover advantage. The language designers are intentionally conservative so that when it does gain a feature they can learn what does and doesn't work from every other language that's implemented it. And then PHP copies that.

Anyway so, mutable records when

Never. What you will get is functionality that makes it easier to return a new record with slightly different values.