Re: [MacPerl] data structures

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 05:41:24 PDT, Flavio Montiel wrote:

>Is there an easy way to copy the
>whole structure (building a new structure with the same contents but not 
>using the old adresses)?
>
>Maybe there's a module i couldn't find?

The technical name for what you want to do is "deep copy". It has been
mentioned on the Perl newsgroups a few times, so I guess there must be
some modules.

A quick web search revealed not much more than this article by Randal
Schwartz:

	Unix Review Column 30 (Feb 2000)
	[suggested title: Deep copying, not Deep secrets]
	http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col30.html

-- 
	Bart.

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