On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 12:35:32AM +0000, William Dunlap wrote: [...] > I find R's (& S+'s & S's) copy-on-write-if-not-copying-would-be-discoverable- > by-the-uer machanism for giving the allusion of pass-by-value a good way > to structure the contract between the function writer and the function user. [...]
Can you elaborate more on this, especially on the ...-...-...-if-not-copying-would-be-discoverable-by-the-uer stuff? What do you mean with discoverability of not-copying? Ciao, Oliver ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
