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Why clone() method in Object class as a "protected" ?

796466Nov 25 2010 — edited Nov 29 2010

Hi,

Why clone() method in Object class declared as a "protected" access modifier ? is it any special reason for that ? why not it declared as a "public" like equals() and hashCode() method ?

Thanks in Advance
Rishi

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