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Yeah, it's wildly hyperbolic. Stuff like > Blindly copying the bytes of an object instance, and just hoping that somehow that works correctly – in an object-o
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Yeah, it's wildly hyperbolic. Stuff like
> Blindly copying the bytes of an object instance, and just hoping that somehow that works correctly – in an object-oriented language derived from Smalltalk where even numbers are often reference types – is farcical.
is a nonsensical thing to say, when NSNumber started using tagged pointers 15ish years after NSCopyObject came into existence. But I'm sure it gets more clicks than just pointing out that a very old piece of software has some API warts which should be avoided.