From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-12-18T01:53:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Deep copy in Rub?

On Wednesday, 18 December 2002 at  1:50:11 +0900, Florian Frank wrote:
> On 2002-12-18 01:20:18 +0900, Yohanes Santoso wrote:
> > > anyone can tell why ruby don't have deep copy routine in standard
> > > distribution?
> > But it has. Didn't you read my post?
> 
> My Ruby has it now:
> 
> [flori@lambda flori](0)$ irb --prompt xmp
> VERSION
>     ==>"1.7.3"
> o = ["foo"]
>     ==>["foo"]
> oc = o.deep_clone
>     ==>["foo"]
> o[0].equal? oc[0]
>     ==>false
 
 I just did a CVS get this morning...

irb(main):001:0> VERSION
=> "1.7.3"
irb(main):002:0> a=%w{a b c}
=> ["a", "b", "c"]
irb(main):003:0> b=a.deep_clone
NoMethodError: undefined method `deep_clone' for ["a", "b", "c"]:Array
        from (irb):3


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