From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-05-01T12:22:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Cloning into an object

Hi --

On Sun, 1 May 2005, Eric Mahurin wrote:

> I read a little more about become.  It looks like it might be
> made standard in ruby at some point.  Will it have the above
> functionality.  Or will it do something like what I think the
> smalltalk "become" does - change all references to the
> destination object to point to the source object.  I really
> don't want the reference changes because a) it seems very
> expensive (search the object space), and b) this would cause
> the object id to change.

I thought that was the whole point of "become".  Certainly it doesn't
make sense for references to object x to persist in being reference to
object x if object x has "become" object y.  (The idea of having this
in Ruby doesn't appeal to me, but that's my understanding of its
premise, anyway.)


David

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David A. Black
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