From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T02:03:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Deep copy

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:31:21 +0200
"Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:43:45 +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I find that when I need to do a deep copy that I
> > usually just do the following:
> > 
> >   x = Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(y)
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a more concise (possibly faster) method that
> > combines these two steps? If not, should we add one?
> 
> How about this ?
> 
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?StandardClassExtensions/Object

<quoting from http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ObjectDeepClone>

class Object
  def deep_clone
    Marshal::load(Marshal.dump(self))
  end
end

<end quote>

Jason Creighton