From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-04-29T03:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Deep copy?

On 4/29/05, Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> wrote:
> Is there a deep copy function that I've missed somehow? (dup and clone are
> both shallow copy functions).
> 
> E.g. How can I make a deep copy of a Hash?
> 
> Ie if
>  a=['who'=>'me'],
> I want
>  b = a.deepcopy
> Such that
>  b['who'].replace('you')
> doesn't result in
>  a == ['who'=>'you']
> 
> I could do
>  b=YAML::load(YAML::dump(a)
> but it reeks of _wrongness_ ;)

The idiom of choice seems to be to use Marshall instead.


> 
> Andrew Walrond
> 
> 


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