NAME

Tree::DeepClone - A subclass of Tree::Fast which does deep cloning

SYNOPSIS

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';

use Tree::DeepClone;

# -----------------------

my(@alphabet) = (qw/a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z/);
my($tree)     = Tree::DeepClone -> new('root');

$tree -> add_child({}, map {Tree::DeepClone -> new($_)} 1..3);

my($value);

say 'Tree:';

for ($tree -> traverse)
{
	$value = $_ -> value;

	$_ -> meta({$value => ($value eq 'root') ? '0' : $alphabet[$value - 1]});

	say $_ -> value, '. meta: ', ${$_ -> meta}{$value};
}

my($clone) = $tree -> clone;

say 'Clone:';

for ($clone -> traverse)
{
	$value = $_ -> value;

	say $_ -> value, '. meta: ', ${$_ -> meta}{$value};
}

DESCRIPTION

This module simply adds deep cloning to Tree::Fast. As per the Synopsis, you must use Tree::DeepClone everywhere you want this feature.

METHODS

All methods in <Tree::Fast> are available in Tree::DeepClone.

SUPPORT

https://github.com/ronsavage/Tree.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Stevan Little for writing Tree, upon which this module is based.

AUTHOR

Ron Savage <rsavage@cpan.org>.

https://savage.net.au/.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.