From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng Date: 2000-06-20T09:52:34+01:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:03551] Re: Deep copy? Thank you for all the input on this. Yes, open files and other hardware related things I can see would be problematic, and it would be hard to detect what fell into that category for the compiler/interpreter, I imagine. But the Smalltalk approach sounds useful. I'm n0t sure how other langauges deal with this... Hugh hgs@dmu.ac.uk