(**************************************************************************) (* *) (* OCaml *) (* *) (* Jerome Vouillon, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *) (* *) (* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *) (* en Automatique. *) (* *) (* All rights reserved. This file is distributed under the terms of *) (* the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the *) (* special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE. *) (* *) (**************************************************************************) (** Operations on objects *) val copy : (< .. > as 'a) -> 'a (** [Oo.copy o] returns a copy of object [o], that is a fresh object with the same methods and instance variables as [o]. *) external id : < .. > -> int = "%field1" (** Return an integer identifying this object, unique for the current execution of the program. The generic comparison and hashing functions are based on this integer. When an object is obtained by unmarshaling, the id is refreshed, and thus different from the original object. As a consequence, the internal invariants of data structures such as hash table or sets containing objects are broken after unmarshaling the data structures. *) (**/**) (* The following is for system use only. Do not call directly. *) (** For internal use (CamlIDL) *) val new_method : string -> CamlinternalOO.tag val public_method_label : string -> CamlinternalOO.tag