[self-interest] deep copy

[Michael Latta]

When almost everyone says they want "deep" copy they mean "copy everything I want and nothing I do not want".  Establishing what can be assumed in the receiving context and recreated or reconnected is a decidedly non-trivial problem to resolve in a generic way.

Michael

On Dec 26, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:

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> Why's that? Messiness with cycles?
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> On Dec 26, 2010, at 3:18 PM, ungar at mac.com wrote:
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>> Deep copy is a fallacy.
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>> On Dec 26, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Jan-Paul Bultmann wrote:
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>>> hey,
>>> no deep copy functionality there?
>>> 
>>> cheers Jan
>>> 
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