> >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!

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