If a lean-and-mean version is needed for specialized use, there should
be indeed a mechanism to run without whatever pieces are supposed to be
inefficient.
However, the current treatment of S3 methods as internal and S4 methods
as external perpetuates an inferior programming mechanism as the
a
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Martin Maechler wrote:
[...]
> For the mid to longer term I agree a modify() generic might be
> nicer, and the method for "function" may even be more useful
> than the one for list [[and modifyList() would eventually be deprecated]].
>
> OTOH, for new generics, I'd tend to a
> "DeepS" == Deepayan Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:48:52 -0700 writes:
DeepS> On 9/19/06, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Perhaps it should have another name, be made generic and extended
>> to functions in which case it would work on
