The util module is for common utilities required by *other core modules* not utilities that are useful for node modules outside of core.
Node core is crazy small, its not reasonable to think you can build an application without installing additional modules with npm. Many great utility modules exist in npm. Underscore is the most depended on module in npm and it includes _.clone() which is a copy function. lodash is another module which includes all the functionality of underscore and then some and has deep copying support (underscore copy is shallow). -Mikeal On May 1, 2013, at 9:42AM, Luke Arduini <[email protected]> wrote: > that's unnecessary bloat that can be handled fine as a module on npm. > > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov > <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not add a way to copy objects, for example like SugarJS does? > > Util already has `inherits` helper and creating object copies is something > that's not available natively and for newcomers there's a lot of gotchas, > IMO, e.g. when someone tries to clone an object with nested properties and > does a shallow clone, ending up with refs instead of copies. > > Having this in util would save people time and it'd be code that's reviewed > by node maintainers (=> trustworthy). > > Just my 2 cents. > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
