Quote: a Kevo object defines a clone operation to duplicate the object, and a new operation to create an initialized object. The programmer selects which variables to duplicate or initialize

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The standard interface for creating new objects in … kinds of objects. The first operation, clone, is … situation, clone may wish to duplicate none, some, … class-based systems. This operation is typically implemented as … the given object using the share operation defined … [p. 187] In the presence of an initialized copy … all objects have the capability to spawn new … [the problem of reserving a prototypical instance] disappears.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Kevo's 'new' operator solves the problem of reserving a prototypical instance

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