Re: [R] the unwanted persistence of refClass methods

2014-02-14 Thread Ben Tupper
Hello, On Feb 13, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > Redefining methods of a refClass does not change the methods for existing > instances. I found this somewhat surprising, and also pretty inconvenient > for debugging. > > The documentation for reference classes does say that their meth

[R] the unwanted persistence of refClass methods

2014-02-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Redefining methods of a refClass does not change the methods for existing instances. I found this somewhat surprising, and also pretty inconvenient for debugging. The documentation for reference classes does say that their methods should be minimalist, which I suppose is partly because of thi