>>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Baud-Bovy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Tue, 10 May 2005 19:00:53 +0200 writes:
Gabriel> Hi Martin,
Gabriel> Thanks for your reply. I am responding on r-devel to
Gabriel> provide some examples of outputs of the function that
Gabriel> I had list in the post-scriptum of my previous
Gabriel> email (BTW, did my post went through the list? I
Gabriel> subscribed only after mailing it).
Gabriel> You wrote:
>> Just to ask the obvious:
>>
>> Why is using str() not sufficient for you and instead,
>> you use 'print.object' {not a good name, BTW, since it looks like a
>> print() S3 method but isn't one} ?
Gabriel> Would printObject or printSEXP a better name?
definitely better because not interfering with the S3 pseudo-OO convention...
Still not my taste though :
every R object is an object (:-) -- and a SEXP internally --
and we don't use 'fooObject' for other function names even
though their arguments are R objects....
My taste would rather lead to something like
'displayStructure' (or 'dissectInternal' ;-) or a shorter
version of those.
>> The very few cases I found it was insufficient,
>> certainly dput() was, possibly even using it as
>> dput(. , control = ....).
Gabriel> As I wrote in my email, I might have reinvented
Gabriel> the wheel. I did not know str!
(amazingly ... ;-)
Gabriel> The output of str and print.object is quite similar
Gabriel> for atomic and list objects. I might look at this
Gabriel> function to change the argument names of the
Gabriel> print.object function.
Gabriel> However, the output of str is quite different
Gabriel> for language expressions and does not show as well
Gabriel> the their list-like strcuture since it respects
Gabriel> the superficial C-like syntax of the R language
Gabriel> (at the textual level).
Ok, thanks for clarifying this aspect, and the difference to
both str() and dput() here.
<.... much omitted ...>
Martin Maechler,
ETH Zurich
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