Re: deep deep copies, or shallow deep copies?
Re: deep deep copies, or shallow deep copies?
- Subject: Re: deep deep copies, or shallow deep copies?
- From: "Ken Ferry" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:07:13 -0800
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
> Does anyone know whether methods such as:
>
> [NSArray initWithArray:<someArray> copyItems:YES];
>
> continue to deep-copy items for further collections within the root
> collection, or do they fall back to a shallow copy (retaining)?
>
> If no-one knows I can spend an hour or two doing some experiments but if
> it's just a known 'yes' or 'no' I'd rather save the time!
It will send the -copy method to each of the items in the array, and
insert the resulting copies into the new array.
So, context specific. If the items are Cocoa collections, that means
shallow copies of items.
-Ken
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