On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> > But what is wrong with:
> > setGeneric("testFun", function(object, ...))
> Naming conflicts, may be the problem. You have that generic in your package,
> but I might, without know about yours, and I write 
>  setGeneric("testFun", function(x, ...))
> in my package, and then a third person that we don't know of, is loading
> both of our packages. Ouch! Indeed, this do happens. 

True, but isn't that what namespaces are for?

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