Improving inspect on class objects

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Jan 4 18:54:24 UTC 2009


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?

Unless I hear otherwise, I'll go ahead and make introspection
return shallow-cloned hashes in these two cases instead of 
deep-cloned ones.

Pm


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