Nicholas Clark skribis 2005-12-23 17:18 (+0000): > Why not call the shallow copy .copy, and the deep copy .clone?
Because using (almost-)synonyms for different things leads to infinite confusion. List/Array is a good example. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html