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On 04.06.2016 20:01, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    There is this famous book =C2=BBThe Java Programming Language,
>    Fourth Edition=C2=AB by James Gosling et al.
>
>    In it, it is written about the =C2=BBidiom of copy constructor=C2=AB=
:
>
>        =C2=BBThis 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.=C2=AB
>
>    Are you sure about this, Mr. Gosling?

And, what did he reply?

	robert

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