Pointers

[smool]

If I have the following:

Turing:

class Person     export NewPerson, Age, Name         var name : string     var age : int         proc NewPerson (name_ : string, age_ : int)         name := name_         age := age_     end NewPerson         fcn Age : int         result age     end Age         fcn Name : string         result name     end Name end Person var person1, person2 :^Person new person1 new person2 person1 -> NewPerson ("Calvin", 6) person2 := person1 person2 -> NewPerson ("Hobbes", 6) put person1 -> Name put person2 -> Name

Then there are now 2 instances of the class Person, but only 1 of them is being used as both person1 and person2 point to the same set of data. Thus, my outputs of person1 -> Name and person2 -> Name are both the same, "Hobbes".
Is there anyway so that when I make pointer variables equal to each-other, that instead of pointing to the same data that it just recreates the data in 2 instances? So that I would have both person1 and person2 point to different instances of Person but have the same data?

[mirhagk]

Some languages allow cloning in certain instances, Turing does not. You will need to manually do it (and too bad there isn't operator overloading either)

[evildaddy911]

From looking at this, my guess is something like

Var person2:^Person
Person2->newperson(person1 -> name, person1 -> age)

[mirhagk]

I'd suggest creating a method in the person class that creates an object identical to itself, and returns the new object. That way the caller of the object doesn't have to worry about the specifics of cloning the object (and it's a lot less to worry about, and a lot less chance of missing something).

[evildaddy911]

yeah, that works pretty well...
*HINT*
use a procedure for that:
proc duplicate (var ...)

[smool]

Alright, thanks guys.