Re: Deep Copy prototype

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>Thanks for the clarification. I meant to use:
>
>if T == "string" then return string.gsub( A, "(.*)", "%1")

Which still does not do what you want. It is not possible to produce 2
different copies of the same string in Lua.

>The string.gsub docs say: "Returns a copy of s in which..."

>But if there truly aren't string duplicates, help me understand what string.gsub is returning?

It's returning a string that has the same contents as the original one and
hence Lua forces it to be the same Lua value of type string.
--lhf