From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-17T04:52:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposed RCR: Object#replace

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Trans wrote:

>> i see where you are coming from, but wouldn't this more accurately be called
>> something like Object#refer since all instance vars will then be shared?
>
>  class Object
>      def replace(other)
>        other.instance_variables.each do |name|
>          o = other.instance_variable_get(name)
>          if o.respond_to? :clone
>            instance_variable_set(name, o.clone)
>          end
>        end
>      end
>    end

sure - dangerous though, resources can leak and not everything supports clone.

i like it mind you.

-a
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