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|   ByteArray Method Definitions
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|     Change Log
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| Author       Date       Change 
| sbyrne     25 Apr 89	  created.
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ArrayedCollection variableByteSubclass: #ByteArray
		  instanceVariableNames: ''
		  classVariableNames: ''
		  poolDictionaries: ''
		  category: nil.

ByteArray comment: 
'My instances are similar to strings in that they are both represented as
a sequence of bytes, but my individual elements are integers, where as
a String''s elements are characters.' !

!ByteArray methodsFor: 'copying'!

shallowCopy
    | newArray |
    newArray _ self species new: self size.
    1 to: self size do:
    	[ :i | newArray at: i put: (self at: i) ].
    ^newArray
!

deepCopy
    ^self shallowCopy

!!