At 10:07 AM 8/7/00 -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
>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.
That's fine. I'm not against it (I like it), I just want to know what needs
to be done under the hood, and we need to document the pitfalls to folks
that'll use it.
Dan
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