Re: Clone java collection & static variable??

Hello Tom,

Thanks for your repsonse, and sorry for the messy code.

Not it doesn't. Your code is consistent with shallow copies. It is
however very difficult to follow.

I thought a shallow copy would be when you call clone() on an array, it
creates a new object reference to the array, but the reference inside
the array stay the same? The output in the program shows otherwise.
It also clone object references inside the array. Isn't that the
behaviour of deep copy?

So, if a shallow copy on a java collection will clone the object
reference to the collection and clone the object reference it contains,
then a deep copy of java collection would be the above plus clone any
object references inside the object in the array. Ex:
class Entry{
int val
EntryList e_list // deep copy will also clone this?

Thanks

.

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