On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com> wrote: > If I understand properly, you want '<-' to be > a generic function, which it currently isn't. > There may be a way to fake that (I can't think > of any). > > But I'm wondering if you should rethink what > you want. The only reason that I can think of > that you would want to change '<-' is because > of some extra side effect that you want to happen. > That is not in the spirit of R. Yes, I wanted some side effect of '<-', to have my own reference counting for some large resource. I guess this is already the most non-intrusive way I can think of--initially I modified R's source code, an even worse option. > > Patrick Burns
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