Re: interned objects

Alessandro Colomba <[email protected]> writes:

> The last (I think) question is then, what happens if one:
>
> 1. interns an object v,
> 2. serializes it to file x,
> 3. mutates it,
> 4. serializes it again to file y
> 5. deserializes x and y into v1 and v1.
>
> Would v1 and v2 still be eq?, i.e. would one state of object v
> override the other?

You didn't make it clear whether by "it" you are referring to the
original object or the object returned by intern? Anyway, generally,
mutating interned objects is a bad idea. I mentioned that
elsewhere. Don't do it. Chances are the above would break as early as
serialisation.


Matthias.



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