From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-01-26T11:13:51+09:00
Subject: Re: simple newbie question

Hi --

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, kieran kirwan wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a piece of code below in which I;
> 1.....make a new NumberList object and append two MyNumber objects.
> 2.....copy the NumberList object and append a further MyNumber object.
> However after this both objects are the same.
[...]
> zl2=zl1

That's why they're the same: by doing this assignment, you're storing
a new reference to the object in zl2.  But it's still the same object.


David

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