Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

The copy function

The copy function helps to create an independent instance by copying the existing object. This function does not exist in the normal class, which makes it a bit inconvenient when we need a new object of an existing type. Let's create a normal class and try to create a copy of existing instance:

1. Create an object of Person and assign it to another person object:

class Person(var name : String, var age: Int, var height: Double)val abid = Person("Abid", 40, 6.0)val khan = abid

Ideally, both abid and khan should be two separate entities, but both objects are aliases of each other and point to the same memory location:

2. To verify ...