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William Dunlap wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: l...@stat.uiowa.edu [mailto:l...@stat.uiowa.edu]
>> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 4:24 PM
>> To: William Dunlap
>> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] symbol name caching bug: attributes ge
> -Original Message-
> From: l...@stat.uiowa.edu [mailto:l...@stat.uiowa.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 4:24 PM
> To: William Dunlap
> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] symbol name caching bug: attributes get
> tied to symbol names
>
> Since
Since symbols/names are reference objects this behavior in unavoidable
if we allow attributes to be added to them. On the other hand, I'm
not sure it makes sense to allow that. Attempting to set an attribute
on NULL signals an error; it would probably make sense to do the same
for any name object
In R versions 2.10.1 and "2.11.0 Under development
(unstable) (2010-03-07 r51225)" on Windows I get the
following if I type the commands at the start of
the session. Note how the attribute attached to
the name "Response" by the initial call to structure()
seems to get tied to that name for the rem
