[DGD] A slight confusion about light-weight objects

[Par Winzell]

> "If the master object is itself a light-weight object, it will be copied."
> 
> Now, I don't see how it would be possible for the master object to be a 
> light-weight object. As generating a light-weight object means calling 
> new_object, and the parameter only accepts object pointers, the only way 
> to obtain a master object would be with compile_object, surely? And if 
> that's the case, then the initial object is never a light-weight object, 
> its just a plain old heavy one. Which kind of defeats the purpose of 
> having lightweight objects since the first instance (the master) still 
> needs to be destructed!

The doc goes:

NAME
         new_object - create a new light-weight object
 

SYNOPSIS
         object new_object(object master)
 


So, I think with 'master object', Felix means 'the object argument named 
master'. This choice of name might be a little confusing.

The new_object() kfun will copy any LWO you send into it.

Zell
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