Re: Addendum (Re: Patch: FYI: clone System properties)

["Ranjit Mathew" <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

> Ranjit> The following patch is an addendum to your patch. It implements
> Ranjit> clone( ) for Properties and also attempts to address Classpath
> Ranjit> support request number 100559 raised by crawley and pointed out
> Ranjit> by Mike that lists the differences in the output of
> Ranjit> Properties.list( ) in GCJ v/s Sun's JDK 1.3/1.4:
>
> I thought about this more, and I think we don't need a clone method,
> due to the way that Hashtable.clone is implemented.  I'm going to
> leave that part out of your patch.
Can you please explain the reasoning? AFAICT, without this clone()
implementation, Properties.clone( ) would give you an object
that doesn't have the same behaviour with respect to default values
for keys. The JDK docs do not say anything about Properties.clone( ),
but this is the behaviour I think it ought to have.

Ranjit.

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