```js
function clone(x) {
return util._extend(x, {})
}
```
Obvouisly `util._extend` is not documented so if you use it and it changes
then thats your problem.
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Ilya Shaisultanov <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Right, so util module is for internal stuff. Then it makes sense to not
> add stuff into it willy-nilly. Good to know.
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 1:06:51 PM UTC-4, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>
>> 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<https://github.com/andrewplummer/Sugar/blob/master/lib/object.js#L313>
>>> 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.
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