I've seen libraries in other languages that name this kind of function 'blit'. Somewhat retro, but not too bad.
/Andreas On 14 August 2013 23:42, Kris Kowal <[email protected]> wrote: > The name `copy` matches my intuition for the behavior described, as informed > by the shell command `cp source target` and other precedents. I would expect > `clone` to return a deep copy, as in `Object.clone(object, depth=Infinity, > memo=Map())`, informed by the Java precedent, and I would not be perturbed > by `copy` and `clone` coexisting as such. > > Kris Kowal > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
