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<div><h1>copy -- copy an object</h1>
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<div><tt>copy x</tt> yields a copy of x.<p/>
If x is an hash table, array, list or sequence, then the elements are placed into a new copy. If x is a hash table, the copy is mutable if and only if x is.<p/>
It is not advisable to copy such things as modules and rings, for the operations that have already been installed for them will return values in the original object, rather than in the copy.<p/>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="_new__Class.html" title="set the class and parent of an object">newClass</a> -- set the class and parent of an object</span></li>
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