[SAGA-RG] Cloning and object ids

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Malcolm Illingworth] (Oct 16 2008):
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A quick question about cloning and deep copy.
> 
> If I clone an object, is the saga object identifier supposed to get set to
> the value from the original object, or get a new value assigned?

Hi Malcolm,

the object id is supposed to help to keep track of object
instances on application level, e.g. to implement an object
registry or such.  Thus, clone should create an object with
a _new_ (i.e. different) object id.

This should be clarified in the spec, thanks for asking! :-)

Cheers, Andre.


> Thanks,
> Malcolm.
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