At 12:53 PM 8/7/00 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>There are a wide range of tricky problems associated with deep copy and
>deep compare. I like the idea, but circular references can make this
>problematic even without external things (filehandles, dirhandles, objects
>from non-perl sources) are thrown in. That needs to be taken into account
>when putting together the RFC for it, if someone even does.
I don't want it to go undocumented; I can write an RFC since I started the
thread, or Damian can write it since he brought up clone() before that. I
defer to Damian.
I don't think it's impossible to do something useful, if we think
sufficiently Perlish.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
