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Re: Are you sure, Mr. Gosling?

From Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Are you sure, Mr. Gosling?
Date 2016-06-05 12:54 +0200
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References <Gosling-20160604185910@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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On 04.06.2016 20:01, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    There is this famous book »The Java Programming Language,
>    Fourth Edition« by James Gosling et al.
>
>    In it, it is written about the »idiom of copy constructor«:
>
>        »This idiom is not used much within the Java class
>        libraries, because the preferred way to make a direct
>        copy of an object is by using the clone method.«
>
>    Are you sure about this, Mr. Gosling?

And, what did he reply?

	robert

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