Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
But can you be sure that there is no legitimate reason for expecting
the current behaviour?
you surely know the answer.
Actually, I don't. I was just pointing out the generic risk of fixing
something that isn't broken by breaking something that works. There's a
lot of conservatism in R where things don't get rationalized for similar
reasons. For quite a while, bug-for-bug compatibility with S-PLUS v 3.x
was considered important to allow people to port their packages between
systems.
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