Difference between revisions of "Cloning objects"

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add this page, maybe there is already some useful content in the french version of the SmartEiffel Wiki.
Please wait for the French version to be stable enough before to start translation...
 
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* rename this page to "duplicating objects"?
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* twin, copy
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* main property: is_equal afterwards
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* make, COLLECTION.from_collection (e. g. make an ARRAY from another type of collection)
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<ramack> copy is a feature which is inherited from ANY - so EVERY class (and therefore every object) has it and it does the same everywhere: the object on which it is called (the thing before the dot) copies the content of the parameter of the call
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<ramack> in case of an ARRAY2 this of course also applies to lower/upper12...
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<ramack> the main property of copy is that: a.copy(b).is_equal(b) holds
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<Petroo> makes sense
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<ramack> I. e. after copying from an object it is equal!

Latest revision as of 19:56, 16 April 2016

*** TO DO ***
add this page, maybe there is already some useful content in the french version of the SmartEiffel Wiki.
* rename this page to "duplicating objects"?
* twin, copy
* main property: is_equal afterwards
* make, COLLECTION.from_collection (e. g. make an ARRAY from another type of collection)
<ramack> copy is a feature which is inherited from ANY - so EVERY class (and therefore every object) has it and it does the same everywhere: the object on which it is called (the thing before the dot) copies the content of the parameter of the call
<ramack> in case of an ARRAY2 this of course also applies to lower/upper12...
<ramack> the main property of copy is that: a.copy(b).is_equal(b) holds
<Petroo> makes sense
<ramack> I. e. after copying from an object it is equal!