[Newbies] Re: Suspected bug when setting preferences

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stan shepherd wrote:
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> nicolas cellier wrote:
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>> Yes indeed, 168 clones of PBBooleanPreferenceView...
>> We now have to figure out who created these clones, for what purpose, 
>> before deciding if it is a bug, but it looks like a bug indeed...
>>
>> Nicolas
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> 
> It happens in 
> Preferences>>savePersonalPreferences
> 	"Save the current list of Preference settings as the user's personal
> choices"
> 
> 	self  setParameter:#PersonalDictionaryOfPreferences
> 		 to:self dictionaryOfPreferences deepCopy
> 
> I think during the deepCopy.
> 
> ...Stan

Using veryDeepCopy instead of deepCopy would avoid cloning classes
(as the name does not help to guess).

Well, this would deserve some guru advice, I don't much like all these 
copy messages... But veryDeepCopy seems much better than deepCopy. The 
later is not immune to infinite loops in case of circular references...

Nicolas