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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
How to Create a Defensive Copy in Python
In Python, you define a person class or maybe a person class is bad idea. And database class has an array of records and so the problem is that if you pass in a record or a class instance into database, it'll take a hold of that object and then it assumes it has it. They don't know this, right? And so now they suddenly get bugs. So what ends up happening is you say, okay, I will do what's called a defensive copy inside the database. And then that way, if somebody passes something in, I will have my own copy of it and they can go do whatever and they're not going to break my thing. This is usually the
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