From 06565a11b0d1ad2e34574072f166749770b30fce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Williams <jeffrey.l.williams@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:29:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] improve doop module

---
 lib/jsdoc/util/doop.js | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/jsdoc/util/doop.js b/lib/jsdoc/util/doop.js
index b8890b2c..102a6133 100644
--- a/lib/jsdoc/util/doop.js
+++ b/lib/jsdoc/util/doop.js
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
  */
 function doop(o) {
     var clone;
-    var descriptor;
     var props;
     var i;
     var l;
@@ -17,17 +16,11 @@ function doop(o) {
             }
         }
         else {
-            // TODO: replace some of this with Object.create()?
-            // TODO: are we getting circular refs, etc., because we're not calling doop() on the
-            // descriptor?
-            clone = {};
+            clone = Object.create(o);
             props = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(o);
             for (i = 0, l = props.length; i < l; i++) {
-                descriptor = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(o, props[i]);
-                if (descriptor.value instanceof Object) {
-                    descriptor.value = doop(descriptor.value);
-                }
-                Object.defineProperty(clone, props[i], descriptor);
+                Object.defineProperty(clone, props[i],
+                    Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(o, props[i]));
             }
         }