Re: semantics of copy and mirror
Daniel Ziltener 27 Mar 2026 23:39 UTC
On 3/27/26 23:12, John Cowan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 5:33 PM Daniel Ziltener <xxxxxx@lyrion.ch> wrote:
>
>> Not descending into everything means it by definition is not a deep copy.
> It's a matter of perspective. For the purposes of this SRFI,
> everything that is not a SRFI 263 object can be treated as atomic,
> because they contain no slots. Of course this has to be documented.
But that is already what the normal copy does. In that case, we need a
better name for the deep-copy method.