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Re: Dropping and copying
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donalson |
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Re: Dropping and copying |
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Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:05:40 -0800 |
Can you think of anything more frightening then building and debugging a
complex model. Perfect for tonight... :-)
Kerimcan Ozcan wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I know, some of you will call me miserable for staying in on a Halloween
> night and having nothing better to do than programming in Swarm, but
> anyways, here it goes.
>
> I have two Map objects, mapOld and mapNew respectively.
> Members of these map objects are swarmobjects themselves (with several
> variables and methods). Each time period, I use members in mapOld
> to update member in mapNew (mapOld members are not modified meanwhile).
> At the end of each time period, I would like to make mapOld an exact
> replica of mapNew. Next time period, I will start with members of this
> new mapOld object and update members of mapNew, and so on. In other
> words, I have something similar to a double buffer operation here. I tried
> [mapOld deleteAll];
> [mapOld drop];
> mapOld = [mapNew copy: [self getZone]];
> However, this didn't work. Is there a clean-cut way of doing what I want
> to achieve?
>
> Kerimcan Ozcan
> Doctoral Pre-Candidate in Marketing
> University of Michigan Business School
> Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kozcan/ozcan.html
>
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