From: david@...
Date: 2005-08-03T23:02:37+09:00
Subject: Re: C++ Design Principles for Ruby - Classes of Classes.

Cit�t John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz>:

>
> I think he is probably right about creating public copy constructors (clone
> method?) and assignment with value semantics.
>

Hmm, I thought #clone makes a crude low-level copy, and #dup is the
"higher-level" method for that, doing a shallow copy first, then calling
#initialize_copy to do class-specific deep copy operations. Could someone
clarify that for me?

David