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I am reading the contracts of OpenZeppelin, in particular the ERC20.sol. I see that they could use immutable in the case of the name and symbol, but they are not using its. They they prefear a stard private variable instead of inmutable?

    mapping(address => uint256) private _balances;

    mapping(address => mapping(address => uint256)) private _allowances;

    uint256 private _totalSupply;

    string private _name;
    string private _symbol;
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That is because immutable variables can not have a non-value type i.e string here check out docs for more information on same. Check out docs to find out more about all value type.

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  • But, why is non-value type? You can use immutable with strings.
    – Germán Küber
    Nov 15, 2021 at 23:25
  • As mentioned in [docs] (docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/…) "Not all types for constants and immutables are implemented at this time. The only supported types are strings (only for constants) and value types."
    – Surbhi Audichya
    Nov 16, 2021 at 21:24

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