> Edgar> When trying to access the CVS repository I get
> Edgar> connect to subversions.gnu.org:2401 failed: Connection refused
>
> I saw this on another list too. I'm guessing it was a transient
> problem. Can you try again and see?
It works for me now.
This is a suggestion for the doc for the clone() method.
I sometimes wonder whether these docs shouldn't also contain example snippets for
beginner programmers, are we following the Sun approach to documenting these methods?
John Leuner
Index: java/lang/Object.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/classpath/java/lang/Object.java,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 Object.java
--- java/lang/Object.java 2000/03/16 23:31:35 1.7
+++ java/lang/Object.java 2001/05/01 22:31:44
@@ -134,7 +134,13 @@
** Object's implementation of clone allocates space for
** the new Object using the correct class, and then fills
** in all of the new field values with the old field
- ** values. Thus, it is a shallow copy.
+ ** values. Thus, it is a shallow copy.<p>
+ **
+ ** All arrays are Cloneable (they all implement the interface Cloneable).<p>
+ **
+ ** Cloning an array is equivalent to creating a new array of the same type
+and size
+ ** and then calling arraycopy. When a multidimensional array (like int[][] or
+ ** Object[][]) is cloned, only the first dimension is copied. <p>
**
** @exception CloneNotSupportedException
** @return a copy of the Object.
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