Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
>
> is precisely why i'd think that the prefix 'names<-' should never do
> destructive modifications, because that's what x = 'names<-'(x, 'foo'),
> and thus also names(x) = 'foo', is for.
>
>
to make the point differently, i'd expect the following two to be
equivalent:
x = c(1); 'names<-'(x, 'foo'); names(x)
# "foo"
x = c(1); do.call('names<-', list(x, 'foo')); names(x)
# NULL
but they're obviously not. and of course, just that i'd expect it is
not a strong argument.
vQ
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