Instance.Clone method definition does not account for Instance.Archivable behavior

[jheinem1]

According to the documentation of Instance.Archivable, when this property is false, it introduces the possibility of Instance.Clone() failing by returning nil rather than throwing an error.

Calling Clone directly on an object will return nil if the cloned object is not archivable.

https://roblox-ts.com/playground/#code/DYUwLgBAlgdgzmAhjAxiCBeCMQHcICS8SqIAFAEQCyA9gCYjAUCUAdAMLA05nMQD0-CGAAWUOBBQ0ArsDoQARugAG0mAwBmsEHWUAoPQAcATrDBlYCZGlYA5RAFsQzIA

[Dionysusnu]

This is unfortunately a conscious decision that is slightly unsafe. The Archivable property is very rarely used, and the inconvenience of the possibly-undefined type outweighs the benefit of the better correctness.
We should add a warning to the documentation comment though.

[jheinem1]

Fair enough, though it may be necessary to add some sort of warning specifically when cloning models, as character models are not archivable by default.

[osyrisrblx]

I agree with what Dionysusnu said above. Going to close this for now.