From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-05-17T10:16:22-07:00
Subject: Re: Why do #dup and #clone behave differently with respect to instance methods

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Robert Klemme (bob.news@gmx.net) wrote:

> Here's a technical description:
>=20
> "While clone is used to duplicate an object, including its internal state,
> dup typically uses the class of the descendent object to create the new
> instance."
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/rdoc/1.9/classes/Object.html#M000889

Note that #clone also copies the frozen and tainted state of an Object,
while #dup does not.

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