That only does a shallow copy, though, it's not going to work for nested
objects. At this point I'd rather go with a module.
On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 1:37:42 PM UTC-4, Raynos wrote:
>
> ```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]<javascript:>
> > 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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