Oh, I had missed that that code path is now enabled by default. It’s worth
noting that the commented-out test in that commit also still succeeds if
invoked via `getS3method`. So at the very least there’s now an
inconsistency in the lookup performed by R internally (via `UseMethod`) and
`getS3method
On 09/10/2019 3:22 p.m., Konrad Rudolph wrote:
tl;dr: S3 lookup no longer works in custom non-namespace environments as of
R 3.6.1. Is this a bug?
I don't know whether this was intentional or not, but a binary search
through the svn commits finds that the errors started in this one:
tl;dr: S3 lookup no longer works in custom non-namespace environments as of
R 3.6.1. Is this a bug?
I am implementing S3 dispatch for generic methods in environments that are
not
packages. I am trying to emulate the R package namespace mechanism by
having a
“namespace” environment that defines gen
