> -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 September 2003 16:43
<snip> > ... the intention > is to find a style that avoid problems like yours, where it says that > you should avoid periods in function names except if you use it for S3 > class methods. Feedback is appreciated. One possible argument against this is the fact that 851 of the 1655 objects in base use a period in their name. OK, well, not really that many because this list includes a lot of bona fide S3 class methods - but it also includes sys.*, unix.*, win.* and that's not to mention data.frame (which is of course NOT a method of the function data). And help.start. Then there is read.* which is to some extent S3-class-like in that the read method is set by .* but it is called explicitly, rather than according to the class of the first argument. So, I don't see universal support for your .* proposal ... and I'm certainly not going to rewrite my old code... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nice S4 class syntax) 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
