On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Christopher Barker <[email protected]>wrote:

> Mark Wiebe wrote:
> > 1) NA vs IGNORE and bitpattern vs mask are completely independent. Any
> > combination of NA as bitpattern, NA as mask, IGNORE as bitpattern, and
> > IGNORE as mask are reasonable.
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> Is this really true? if you use a bitpattern for IGNORE, haven't you
> just lost the ability to get the original value back if you want to stop
> ignoring it? Maybe that's not inherent to what an IGNORE means, but it
> seems pretty key to me.
>

What do you think of renaming IGNORE to SKIP?

-Mark


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