<html><head><base href="x-msg://75/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 26, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br><br><div>Why's that? Messiness with cycles?<br><br>On Dec 26, 2010, at 3:18 PM,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ungar@mac.com">ungar@mac.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div id="ygrp-text"><p style="clear: both; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; ">Deep copy is a fallacy.</p><div><br><div><div>On Dec 26, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Jan-Paul Bultmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span> </span><div id="ygrp-text"><p style="clear: both; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; ">hey,<br>no deep copy functionality there?<br><br>cheers Jan<br></p></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div style="clear: both; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></blockquote><br><br><div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both; "></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>