Thanks Hardley. I see what you mean. You are right, I am not an expert in oop AND I don't really know how R oo works, so certainly I shouldn't be making any sweeping statement. I was just thinking about the issue of local vs. global, i.e. changes intended for the local environment shouldn't affect the global environment. That was all I meant.
On 2/6/08, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2008 10:13 AM, tom soyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Gabor. I guess true oo encapsulation is not possible in R. > > Before making such a claim, I would encourage you to actually learn > what oo means. A couple of good readings are: > > Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. > http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ > > Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. > http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html > > Java style (message passing) oo is not the entirety of oo-based > programming! > > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > -- Tom [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
