perl-Data-Clone

Polymorphic data cloning

'Data::Clone' does data cloning, i.e. copies things recursively. This is smart so that it works with not only non-blessed references, but also with blessed references (i.e. objects). When 'clone()' finds an object, it calls a 'clone' method of the object if the object has a 'clone', otherwise it makes a surface copy of the object. That is, this module does polymorphic data cloning. Although there are several modules on CPAN which can clone data, this module has a different cloning policy from almost all of them. See Cloning policy and Comparison to other cloning modules for details.