Hi all, Because str uses the generic version of length and names, it's currently very easy to create objects that break str:
a <- structure(list(1:5), class = "a") length.a <- function(x) 2L str(a) b <- structure(list(1:5), class = "b") names.b <- function(x) character() str(b) These are obvious toy examples, but it is a real problem if you want to create a class that defines names or length in a meaningful way, that is incompatible with the underlying data structure. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
