[Bioperl-l] $obj->clone

[Hilmar Lapp]

This was on the table a while ago, I know, so it may be a dead horse 
I'm beating. I rather mean it as a poll what people think and 
whether people think life is going to be easier or unchanged w/ or 
w/o a clone method.

The background why I resumed beating this horse is I have written 
some code for bioperl-db that deep-traverses objects and replaces 
all possible child objects. This would get me 3/4 of the way for 
writing up a deep-clone routine (shallow clone is 2 lines in perl).

Any thoughts whether having this would be useful or rather dangerous?

	-hilmar
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Hilmar Lapp                            email: lapp at gnf.org
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