Indeed that was on oversight on my part. It is surprising that things like
this work:
> setClass('test', slots=c(a='ANY'), prototype=list(a=NULL, b='hello'))
> new('test')@b
[1] "hello"
> slotNames(new('test'))
[1] "a"
I'm planning a release of diffobj right now so I will fix this, but I agree
that R should probably throw an error here.
Best,
B.
On Thursday, January 10, 2019, 11:30:13 AM EST, William Dunlap
<wdun...@tibco.com> wrote:
I was installing the 'diffobj' package into TERR and got an error from the call
StyleSummary <- setClass("StyleSummary",
slots=c(container="ANY", body="ANY", map="ANY"),
prototype=list(
container=function(x) sprintf("\n%s\n", paste0(x, collapse="")),
body=identity,
detail=function(x) sprintf("\n%s\n", paste0(" ", x, collapse="")),
map=function(x) sprintf("\n%s", paste0(" ", x, collapse="\n"))
))
because the prototype contained components not in the slots list. R does not
complain about the mismatch, but new("StyleSummary") does name make something
with a 'detail' slot. Should this be an error?
I suspect that the package writer intended to include 'detail' in the slots
argument.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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