On Nov 26, 2007 10:01 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
What do you get if you 'copy' an object? kjs
