When we want to maintaion a local copy of the object we use clone method.

what is the use of clone method? why user cant overwrite in
sub class without its proper defination.

Question Posted / aravind

Answer Posted / aravind

When we want to maintaion a local copy of the object we use
clone method. This is to ensure not to modify the callers
object.

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