Well, when you talk about "THE copying machinery" you have to be a bit more
specific. There is no such thing as #deepCopy or #shallowCopy in the ANSI
Smalltalk standard. Many Smalltalks have
Object>>copy
^self shallowCopy postCopy
and encourage you to override #postCopy.
But nothing stops you d
"Richard O'Keefe" writes:
> #deepCopy is one of those things that is best avoided,
> because it violates the key principle of OOP that an
In the abstract, I agree. In practice, I don't see what else I could do
for my use case. I have an object whose internal state is updated
by incoming messages
