Yes, that makes sense. Thanks! :)
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Julien Aymé <[email protected]> wrote: > Object.clone() only clones the references to the member fields. > It does not a "deep" clone. It is the responsibility of subclasses > which want to do so to copy the desired member fields (in general only > mutable fields are cloned, the immutable ones are left). > > Hope this helps, > Regards, > Julien > > 2013/1/2 Dan Filimon <[email protected]>: >> I'm confused what DelegatingVector's clone() method is trying to do. >> I'm playing with it to create the DecoratedVector<T> type. >> >> Here it is [1]. >> So, it first calls its super class, super.clone() at line 5 (which is >> in fact Object's clone() since this class doesn't extend anything). >> Then, it clones the delegate vector, delegate.clone() at line 10. >> >> Why is it doing this? Isn't calling super.clone() enough? It's only >> doing member copying, right? >> Cloning the delegate vector is something Object.clone() did anyway, isn't it? >> >> [1] https://gist.github.com/4438413
