If you believe that certain changes intended only to affect the local environment nevertheless affect the global environment please give a code example.
On Feb 6, 2008 12:11 PM, tom soyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
