Shallow-copy

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make a shallow copy of. transitive

    "The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure."

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"The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure."

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