From: Chuckl <Killian2422@...>
Date: 2004-12-11T22:42:25+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make a deep copy of an object (Searching for Idiom)

I've also been thinking about deep_copy, but for a different reason. I
want to keep a mutation log for each object instance. So if this
occurs:

foo = Obj.new(:blah)
foo.warp_blah!
foo.twist_blah = :different_blah

Then somewhere, preferably abstracted inside each object instance, I'd
have a log like:

puts foo.mutation_log => ["wrap_blah!", ["twist_blah=",
:different_blah]]

When the method Obj.checkpoint is called, the log is cleared and the
current state returned as a Marshall-ing, or some other store-savable
format.

I understand this is not precisely the same thing as deep_copy, but I
wonder if anyone else has done this? Obviously or not, I'm looking to
implement an orthogonal persistence object system in ruby.
Cheers,
Chuckl