In my view the class a and b should inherit same parent, like class c.
And S3methods should be defined for the class c.
Actually, this is not a workaround.
It will go with the more oop-ish design.
kohske
2012/6/21 Winston Chang <winstoncha...@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
>
>> On 06/20/2012 08:06 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>
>>> But aren't the methods compatible? If equality doesn't make a method
>>> compatible what does?
>>>
>>
>> Actually I guess that turns out to be the key (to why they work at the
>> command line but not in a package). At the command line they really _are_
>> the same, e.g., .Internal(inspect("+.a")) has the same address as "+.b".
>> In the package they (e.g., badadd:::"+.a") have different addresses, I
>> suppose because S3method() acts on them independently.
>>
>>
> Thanks for the investigation. I wonder if there's some sort of workaround.
>
>
>
>>
>>> But unfortunately that doesn't work for S3 classes (even with
>>> setOldClass) so it doesn't help much unless we want to rewrite
>>> everything in S4 :/
>>>
>>
>> rewrite?
>>
>
> Yes, the original question is the result of some issues that came up in
> ggplot2 development...
>
> -Winston
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