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| List (DeepCopy) |
| Declared In: | <misckit/MiscListExtensions.h> |
| Category Description |
This provides the traditional "deep" copy methods for a List class. Rather than simply copying the objects in the List,
or their id pointers, these methods ask a List object to do a "deep" copy of every object in the list. A deep copy of the
List will be a new List containing new, "deep", copies of every single object in the List. (As opposed to simply
copying the id pointers, which would be a "shallow" copy.) When copying the List's objects, if the objects do not
respond to the  -deepCopyFromZone: method, then the objects are simply sent the -copyFromZone: message
instead. Note that under NEXTSTEP, the -copyFromZone: method is sometimes a shallow copy and sometimes a
deep copy. If you want better control over memory management you should implement deep and shallow copy methods
for your objects; this category aids in the use of such methods.
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| Method Types |
| Making deep copies of a List | - deepCopy- deepCopyFromZone:
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| Instance Methods |
| deepCopy |
| - deepCopy |
| Returns a copy of the receiving List with "deep" copies of all the objects in that list.
See also: -copy (List), -copyFromZone: (List), and
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| - deepCopyFromZone:(NXZone *)zone |
| Returns a copy of the receiving List with "deep" copies of all the objects in that list. All copies are allocated from the
zone zone.
See also: -copy (List), -copyFromZone: (List), and |