Hi Jim,
Thanks for posting this. Honestly the methods list I initially proposed
years ago and the one Luke eventually put in which had some of what I had
said and a bunch of new stuff, was pretty heavily focused on numeric values
(exclusively so, in my case, I think).
I agree that there is a lot
A useful extension of ALTREP is having two new string methods which
return the number of characters of a given string element and to
return a substring of an element.
Having these methods would allow retrieving these values without
needing to create a CHARSXP for the full element data, which could
> Jan Gorecki
> on Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:49:11 +0530 writes:
> Thank you Gabriel,
> I agree that new behaviour makes much more sense. Just wanted to confirm
> before resolving compatibility of my unit tests.
> Best,
> Jan
Indeed, Gabe's explanation is right-on-spot:
