From: Russell Fulton <r.fulton@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T09:28:01+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with dup and clone...

Russell Fulton wrote:

> OK, not a bug but a feature.  My copy of the pickaxe was at home and I 
> now understand that dup and clone only do shallow copies.  I'm wondering 
> if I can use initialize_copy to copy the arrays that I need -- it is 
> described as a call back -- do I just define a method of that name and 
> it will be called on copy?  I'll just have to suck and see!

final word on this one. Yes initialize_copy does the trick.  Iv'e 
renamed fix to initialize_copy and taken the calls to it out of the code 
and it all works as it should.

Cheers and thanks,

Russell

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