Thanks for the insight. > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <snip> > dots <- list(...) > haveYlim <- "ylim" %in% names(dots) > > is the sort of thing we still understand 5 years later. > I didn't say "understand", I said "easily follow". Obviously how "easily" is subjective and depends to some extent on frequency of use of this idiom.
<snip> > Inadvertent partial matching for one. Ah yes! It is true that I often forget about this, mostly because partial argument matching offends me greatly, and I never, knowingly, use it. Of course as a major contributor to the R project (and that's an understatement, I know), you do have to worry about this - users of your routines may like to use partial matching. But I hope most of us don't. Worse news is that my posted formulation would suffer the same problem if I had an explicit argument "ylimit" and called with a "ylim" in "..." intended for "par". That's just too horrible to contemplate. Simon Fear Senior Statistician Syne qua non Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 1379 644449 Fax: +44 (0) 1379 644445 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.synequanon.com Number of attachments included with this message: 0 This message (and any associated files) is confidential and\...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
