Improving inspect on class objects

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Jan 4 18:57:11 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:02:12AM -0800, chromatic wrote:
> > > Changing deep to shallow copying is, from my angle, a bug fix as much as
> > > anything else (as in, if you'd suggested just that change on IRC, I
> > > mighta JFDI). (And yes, it could change program behaviour somewhere, if
> > > folks were relying on it deep-cloning rather than shallow-cloning. But I
> > > find that quite unlikely.)
> > 
> > Shallow cloning makes sense to me too.
> 
> Just to verify: are we talking about changing the behavior of
> Parrot hash cloning in general, or just the introspection hashes?

I should also point out RT #48112, which notes the issue of
deep-versus-shallow copying in hashes and arrays in general.

Pm


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