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initialize_copy

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initialize_copy(source) public

The hook that is invoked by ‘clone’ and ‘dup’ methods.

# File lib/rake/cloneable.rb, line 7
    def initialize_copy(source)
      super
      source.instance_variables.each do |var|
        src_value  = source.instance_variable_get(var)
        value = src_value.clone rescue src_value
        instance_variable_set(var, value)
      end
    end

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