From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-05T23:07:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Recursive dup

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I単aki Baz Castillo wrote:

| I know that I should personalize "dup" method for class A, but is not
| any other way? Does exist any automatic way of doing it?
| I expect some method "dup_recursive" that looks for objects into
| attributes recursively and clones them instead of reference.

If your storage of objects can be enumerated, you could use .each,
duplicate the objects you store, and re-store them.

That doesn't seem terribly efficient, though, so proceed with caution
(but it may get you started in the right direction :).

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