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Add a way to describe cut / copy / paste in a data structure

Open green-coder opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

There are 2 distinct types of intended operation:

  • Moving data from a place to another.
  • Copying the data from a place to another.

Moving pieces of data

One use case for representing the moving operation is that the resources associated with a specific part of the data can follow the move and avoid de-allocation / re-allocation.

Copying pieces of data

The use case is when we want to keep track of the origin of a piece of data. As a new data, it would probably have its own associated resources allocated.

Ideally, the scope of moving / copying should be the whole data structure and not just inside a vector or hashmap.

green-coder avatar Aug 08 '20 07:08 green-coder