in reply to Re^2: Action at a distance
in thread Action at a distance

> BTW, what prevents me from doing something like this?

Nothing.

You can always do it explicitly, as long as a ->clone method is available.

But the OP wants this to happen implicitly, when he does my $copy = $magic_object;

Cheers Rolf
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