From: Yaser Sulaiman <yaserbuntu@...>
Date: 2012-09-19T04:20:11+09:00
Subject: Overriding Object#clone vs. Overriding Object#dup for Deep-Cloning

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Hi.

Is there a community convention that specifies which of the two methods,
`Object#clone` and `Object#dup`, should be overridden for the purposes of
deep-cloning?

On Stackoverflow, some say that `clone` should be overridden [1], while
others say that `dup` is the method to be overridden [2]. So I suspect that
there isn't such a convention.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8529625/1173
[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11752485/1173

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hi.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there a community con=
vention that specifies which of the two methods, `Object#clone` and `Object=
#dup`, should be overridden for the purposes of deep-cloning?</div><div><br=
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</div><div>On Stackoverflow, some say that `clone` should be overridden [1]=
, while others say that `dup` is the method to be overridden [2]. So I susp=
ect that there isn&#39;t such a convention.</div><div><br></div><div>[1]: <=
a href=3D"http://stackoverflow.com/a/8529625/1173">http://stackoverflow.com=
/a/8529625/1173</a></div>
<div>[2]: <a href=3D"http://stackoverflow.com/a/11752485/1173">http://stack=
overflow.com/a/11752485/1173</a></div></div>

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