On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Lukas Renggli wrote: > - #copy is the normal copy operation. It should be used by default and > never overridden. It calls #postCopy that can be overridden to have > class specific copy semantics. > > - #shallowCopy does a shallow copy. It should never be overridden and > only be used if you want to get these very specific semantics. > > - #deepCopy does a deep copy. It should never be overridden and only > be used if you want to get these very specific semantics.
It doesn't handle cycles, #veryDeepCopy does. > > - #clone comes from eToys and Morphic (AFAIK). It implements some > other copy semantics than #copy. I don't think that anybody should > call this method, other than code that depends on this particular copy > behavior. > >From Morphic. Levente > This is exactly the same problematic as with #=. There can't be just > one #=. Other clients might consider other things when comparing > objects. > > Lukas > > -- > Lukas Renggli > http://www.lukas-renggli.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
