I thought you were thinking of the R class system (the S3 and S4 ones anyway) as if it were C++'s. It is quite different.
Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Minshall [mailto:minsh...@umich.edu] > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 1:37 PM > To: William Dunlap > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: 2 setGeneric's, same name, different method signatures > > William, > > > and here mention "intra-class name clashes" (I'm not sure what you > > mean by this). > > sorry, i meant, in something like C++, if i have a class Foo and you > have a class Bar, then i can invent whatever method names/signatures i > want, independent of whatever method names/signatures *you* want. *i* > just need to make sure i don't introduce incompatible methods with the > same name/signature *within* Foo. > > > cheers, Greg ______________________________________________ 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.