&im::HashMap to im::HashMap

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  1. I believe &im::HashMap -> im::HashMap should be very cheap, no more expensive than a Rc::clone()

  2. I can't figure out how to do the above.

  3. Looking at map.rs.html -- source there are functions which take a &im::HashMap , does an update, and returns a im::HashMap

  4. Now, suppose I want to do a number of these updates in sequence, I'd like to do:

let mut x: im::HashMap<...> = ...;
for ...
  x = x.update(...)

but I can't do this right now because I can't figure out how to convert an &im::hashMap to a im::HashMap

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my_map.clone();

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@sfackler : tried that already. Clone not implemented. :frowning:

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You're right. Problem is my Value type did not have impl Clone, so I couldn't use that.

This also confuses me now -- in a persistent hashmap, if everything is shared, why does the value type need to support Clone at all?

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It does look like those K: Clone, V: Clone are both unnecessary. It only needs to clone the root with either Ref = Rc or Arc.

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