From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-05-18T04:17:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15340] Re: How to clone an object?

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

> Thanks, that works well. But, what if a is private.
> 
>   class K
>     def initialize
>       @a = [1,2]
>     end
> 
>     def clone
>       copy = super
>       copy.a = @a.dup
>       copy
>     end
>   end

You could cheat and use instance_eval, or do something like

     attr_reader :a
     protected   :a


Dave