Just to muddy the waters some more, on the topic of copying this might be of interest to you.
http://www.suttoncourtenay.org.uk/duncan/accu/pythonpatterns.html#flyweight On 5/28/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote: > I'm interested in the curious use case Kris posts -- checking for > object identity as part of a sea adventure? I can only imagine. :) Well, it's obvious, really -- if you're being attacked by a school of giant venomous sea serpents, and you can determine that they're actually all references to the same monster, you can save quite a lot of harpoons. -- Greg
