Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
How about 'copy'? Of the above suggestions, 'morph' seems most accurate, and 'new' seems all wrong to me. Of course, if we do it as a variant of 'clone' or 'morph' we might run into trouble when the source operand is itself a class (do we want to copy the class or do we simply want to morph to that type?).
I like 'copy', and the idea that it always consistently creates a copy of the object it's passed. We'll probably get some confusion about the distinction between 'copy' and 'clone'. Saying "clone creates a new PMC" is clear enough. I'll put in a todo ticket.
Allison
