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Can you explain to me why I should inherit from ICloneable and implement the Clone() method?
If I want to do a deep copy, can’t I just implement my method? Let’s say MyClone()?
Why should I inherit from ICloneable? What are the advantages? Is it just a matter of making code ‘more readable’?
You shouldn’t. Microsoft recommends against implementing
ICloneablebecause there’s no clear indication from the interface whether yourClonemethod performs a ‘deep’ or ‘shallow’ clone.See this blog post from Brad Abrams back in 2003(!) for more information.