> I never use is.recursive/is.atomic because the definition they use for > an object to be recursive doesn't usually coincide with what I am > interested in. (If you want to know what that definition is you can > look at the source code, coerce.c:1790.) In computing on the language I > would want one notion where pretty much only calls are recursive in > the sense of having componets that need to be recursed into (you can > see how that is handled in the byte code compiler which is in the > sources as a noweb file). At the internal level, for example in the > GC, _every_ object is recursive in the sence of needing to be checked > for pointers to other objects, because of the attribute field.
Thanks Luke, I'll check those references out. > There have been discussions of this previeously -- you might search > the archive. Any hints as to what to search for? Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
