On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Yaser Sulaiman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > Is there a community convention that specifies which of the two methods, > `Object#clone` and `Object#dup`, should be overridden for the purposes of > deep-cloning? > > On Stackoverflow, some say that `clone` should be overridden [1], while > others say that `dup` is the method to be overridden [2]. So I suspect that > there isn't such a convention. > > [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8529625/1173 > [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11752485/1173
Those answers are not good because in part they are just plain wrong. There is no community convention either way that I am aware of. My question for you would be: what do you need deep copying for? I often find deep copy is a bit of a cargo cult approach: we simply grab everything we can get so we are sure it's ours. I have rarely - if at all - felt the need for a deep copy; I usually prefer specific functionality to handle state. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ruby-talk-google group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ruby-talk-google?hl=en
