[Vm-dev] #clone vs. #shallowCopy

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Feb 14 14:07:46 UTC 2014


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:28:25AM +0100, Stefan Marr wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> In Pharo there is no #clone anymore and in Squeak 4.5 #shallowCopy seems to be equivalent to #clone in its implementation.
> 
> There are a few uses of #clone in the VMMaker, and SmartSyntaxPluginCodeGenerator knows about it as well.
> 
> Would it be ok to migrate to #shallowCopy?
> 

Looks reasonable to me.

Dave



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