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In comp.lang.perl.misc it was asked (message-ID: <1109848552.496818.242290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>)

I've tried various cloning modules to clone a structure containing weak references.
use Storable 'dclone';
use Scalar::Util qw(weaken isweak);
my $x = 99;
my $y = [ \$x ] ;
weaken $y->[0];
$z = dclone $y;
print "y: ", isweak $y->[0];
print "z: ", isweak $z->[0];
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This prints: y: 1 z: I've tried it using the Clone module and Clone::PP. Clone::PP does the same as Storable. Clone gives a segmentation fault. I'm using Perl 5.8.0 on Linux 2.4.20-8

my reply is

After a little bit of thought I'd say that's normal, to be expected behaviour: You're not cloning the weakend reference, but the the data it references, the reference in z[0], poiting to the clone of $x, is a completly new one, the data is cloned, not the reference. I may misunderstand the behaviour though...hmmm kind regards, Tom

Now I'm curious: Am I right? And if I'm right: Is it possible to clone references (Update preserving their "weakend-state")?

regards,
tomte

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus

In reply to Cloning (weak) references by Tomte

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