On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.r...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Jake Verbaten <rayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > However having a deep copy mechanism that works without obscure edge-cases >> would be great. >> >> >> Can you be specific? What obscure edge cases have you previously >> encountered? >> > > > I don't have a list at hand, last time we talked about what it means to > deep copy an arbitary ES-next structure we ran into questions of what it > means to deep copy functions, closures and proxies. > > > Can you point me to existing discussion threads? > The only thing I can find is https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-October/017337.html This particular thread talked about <| and how to make it work on object references rather then object literals. Since <| returns a new object it would have to "clone" the object reference in some "correct" manner. > > > Deep copying "data", i.e. anything that can be represented by JSON doesn't > have too many edgecases. > > It would actually be nice to have an open lists of unsolved edge cases > with generic deep copying. > > > This would definitely be useful. >
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