Sekirov Dictionary

shallow copy

noun 1
shallow-copy verb 1
forms 4

noun1

•
A copy of a data structure which shares any linked structures with the original.
- If you modify that, you'll modify all the shallow copies of the header that points to it.

shallow-copy verb1

•
To make a shallow copy of.
- The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure.

forms

shallow-copied · shallow-copying · shallow-copies · shallow copies

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