Jan. 12, 2010
8:03 p.m.
Nicolas Cellier wrote:
2010/1/12 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?thanks=1789
I do not understand why we need deepCopy and why deepCopy does not implement the veryDeepCopy semantics?
On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
IMO it's the historical st80 deepCopy.
Probably so. FWIW, VW got rid of #deepCopy years ago; the only remnant is Object>>deepCopy, which is implemented as 'self copy'. This was probably a good choice, since deepCopy's semantics are problematic and not often useful. Regards, -Martin