copying (was "veryDeep mysteries")

Craig Latta Craig.Latta at NetJam.ORG
Mon Mar 12 22:59:00 UTC 2001


Hi--

	What is the advantage of DeepCopier over a shallow-copy/post-copy
scheme? (Implement Object>>copy as 'self shallowCopy postCopy',
Object>>postCopy provides a default no-op implementation, subclasses
take care of their own copying needs.)


	wondering,

-C

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