From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2008-10-30T21:22:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug or not a bug? array*=int

Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> Ahh.
> And upon not being lazy and looking at the C, I see this...
> ary2 = ary_new(rb_obj_class(ary), len);
> 
> Which I'm guessing is equivalent to this in ruby (which I already knew
> would return the same array len times)
> ary2=Array.new(ary,len)
> 
> Any chance the document maintainer could slip the word "shallow" into
> the description of array*?
> 
> :)

As mentioned by others, shallow is the default (also to my knowledge in 
most OO languages).
The moment you wish for deep copy is usually the moment you should 
consider writing a proper class instead of deeply nesting 
arrays/hashes/...

Regards
Stefan
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