Re: [Rd] Suggestion: default print method for S3 generics could offer some insights on '...' among registered methods

2025-06-08 Thread Michael Chirico
Thanks Josh, With fresh eyes, it's definitely information overload for the suggested output to take up more space than the function body itself. I'm not sure your suggestion gets at the heart of the issue, though, which is about steering the user with regards to interpreting '...' they see in the

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: default print method for S3 generics could offer some insights on '...' among registered methods

2025-06-08 Thread Joshua Ulrich
Hi Mike, On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM Michael Chirico wrote: > > There is a big difference in how to think of '...' for non-generic > functions like data.frame() vs. S3 generics. > > In the former, it means "any number of inputs" [e.g. columns]; in the > latter, it means "any number of inputs [