I know that if a (struct's) stored property is declared as "let," then the property can't have mutating operations done on it. Does that cascade to the containing object? In other words, will whole-object assignment work, or does a instance-property-level let make the whole object immutable?
Whole-object assignment still works.
Struct properties are (I think) the only place in the language where let isn't usually the right default. The main reason to use let instead of var in a struct is if you want to enforce that multiple properties have to be kept in sync, and so it's better to create a whole new value instead. (You can also enforce this with private(set), but then your enforcement doesn't extend to extensions in the same file.)
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