At 05:31 AM 8/7/00 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> > >Another one for my wish list: deep copying support built in. A devil
> > >inside me thinks this should be a new assignment
> > >operator. Damian? Sounds like this is up your alley. I want to do a
> > >sanity check before taking up RFC space.
> >
> > Regardless of how this looks, it has some pretty significant
> ramifications
> > for the internals. What, for example, should happen if you deep-copy
> a DBI
> > object attached to an Oracle database?
>
>I would say that encountering an "external component" such as a file handle
>during a clone() should either shalow copy the component or else throw an
>exception.
That's cool. I can also see calling a package's CLONE sub if you're cloning
something blessed into it. Presumably it'd get the original as a parameter
and return the new thing, or something of the sort.
Dan
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