At 08:26 AM 10/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Jim Benson wrote:
[snip]
>deepCopy
>   (recursive) copy of object with deepCopy of all instance variables
>
>veryDeepCopy
>   (probably should really be named "structureCopy" or something)
>   copies the object, using a dictionary to keep track of the mapping from
>   old objects to new objects, so that various identities are preserved

could you say some more about veryDeepCopy? when i might want to use it
instead of just deepCopy?

btw, i added your post to swiki for posterity:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2088

david

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