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package scala.collection
package mutable

/** A trait for cloneable collections.
 *
 *  @since 2.8
 *
 *  @tparam A    Type of the elements contained in the collection, covariant and with reference types as upperbound.
 */
@cloneable
trait Cloneable[+A <: AnyRef] {
  // !!! why doesn't this extend java.lang.Cloneable?
  //     because neither did @serializable, then we changed it to Serializable
  override def clone: A = super.clone().asInstanceOf[A]
}