[Pdx-pm] standard for copy constructors in Moose?

[Hans Dieter Pearcey]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:56:07 -0700, Paul Liebert <paull at peak.org> wrote:
> This is like the third time I'm having to write a copy constructor so
> laziness got the best of me.  Comments?  Critiques?  Pointers to std
> Moosian ways to do this etc.

http://search.cpan.org/~doy/Moose-2.0001/lib/Class/MOP/Class.pm#Object_instance_construction_and_cloning

http://search.cpan.org/~nuffin/MooseX-Clone-0.05/lib/MooseX/Clone.pm

Cloning is a tricky subject.  Your copy method assumes that running the
constructor again is the right thing to do, but this isn't necessarily true;
RAII is one obvious case where it may be wrong.

hdp.