[docs] [issue14112] tutorial intro talks of "shallow copy" concept without explanation
Ezio Melotti
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Sat Feb 25 10:54:36 CET 2012
Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> added the comment:
> FWIW it's pretty much the only way of saying what it means.
However, even using "not deep" here would still be ambiguous. What's a deep copy? What's a non-deep copy?
Using "shallow" might be a problem, but the real problem is that regardless of the wording, the reader might not know what this is all about.
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