obj.dup â an_object
Instance Public methods
Produces a shallow copy of objâthe instance variables of
obj are copied, but not the objects they reference.
dup copies the tainted state of obj. See also the
discussion under Object#clone. In general, clone
and dup may have different semantics in descendant classes.
While clone is used to duplicate an object, including its
internal state, dup typically uses the class of the descendant
object to create the new instance.
This method may h