> >There are a wide range of tricky problems associated with deep
> >copy and deep compare. I like the idea, but circular references
> >can make this problematic even without external things
> >(filehandles, dirhandles, objects from non-perl sources) are
> >thrown in. That needs to be taken into account when putting
> >together the RFC for it, if someone even does.
>
> I don't want it to go undocumented; I can write an RFC since I
> started the thread, or Damian can write it since he brought up
> clone() before that. I defer to Damian.
I'm polluting the mailing list enough, as it is! :-)
Why don't you write it up and run it by me.
Damian
PS: I'd like to see it correctly handle cyclic data structures too!