Timon Gehr: > Eiffel does not do that either. > (even though it _does_ have a built in deep copy feature) > > We don't have to over-engineer the feature, if somebody needs to > deep-copy an object they can implement it themselves and use > old(obj.deepCopy()).
I agree. A shallow prestate is quite better than not having it at all in D. Lately C# has implemented DbC, prestate too. I don't know how, but it's worth taking a look. Bye, bearophile
