Re: What has happened to clone() in SE 2?

Peter Gummer <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:11:01 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oliver Elphick wrote:

> yyy = clone(xxx) was useful for making a copy of an object that  
> might be
> Void.
>
> How can this be done now?

I think this is one of the ECMA Eiffel changes that the SmartEiffel  
team agreed with, thank goodness. Maybe we even have them to thank  
for proposing it :-)

The ECMA Eiffel way to do it is yyy := xxx.twin. I'm pretty sure  
that's how you do it in SmartEiffel too.

- Peter Gummer