Taking a copy of an object

[Tom S]

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
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> Tom S wrote:
>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
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>>> a compiler generated .dup method would be nice.
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>> Reflection and the ability to generate your own would be even better.
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> well you already can create your own .dup
> I mean it's just a method that returns typeof(this)

There was a subtle difference in what I wrote :) 'generate' vs 'create' 
  - that is. Generating own .dup and/or serialization functions based on 
meta data is different than writing/creating your own routines to handle 
that by hand.


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Tomasz Stachowiak