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Posted by piyushpaurana on August 06, 2001 at 4:50 AM

> I believe that all classes should support a copy constructor:

> public void someMethod (Foo fIsaFoo) {
> Foo barIsAnotherFoo = new Foo(fIsaFoo);
> ....
> }

> At the very least, a constructor with the signature:

> public Foo (Foo fooToCopy);

> should clone the argument supplied.