Nicolas Cellier wrote: > 2010/1/12 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>: >> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?thanks=1789 >> >> I do not understand why we need deepCopy and why deepCopy does not implement >> the veryDeepCopy semantics? >> >> On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote: >> > > IMO it's the historical st80 deepCopy.
Probably so. FWIW, VW got rid of #deepCopy years ago; the only remnant is Object>>deepCopy, which is implemented as 'self copy'. This was probably a good choice, since deepCopy's semantics are problematic and not often useful. Regards, -Martin _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
