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Pharo is a dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk.
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Can't create deep copy of Context and CompiledMethod #3964

Open theseion opened 5 years ago

theseion commented 5 years ago

[ 1 + 1 ] deepCopy fails with an error. This may be fine but

  1. unexperienced users will not know what to do with the error message
  2. #deepCopy should never fail for core objects
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astares commented 4 years ago

Still valid

dionisiydk commented 4 years ago

2. #deepCopy should never fail for core objects

It looks like the right thing. But I doubt it is easy to achieve. For example what to do with "Smalltalk deepCopy" or "Processor activeProcess deepCopy".

The former will traverse and copy the full image.